O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Tag: Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.