More from Aeschylus
- Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Fragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Agamemnon, lines 832–833
More about intelligence
Albert Einstein1879–1955Out of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 51 “The Goal of Human Existence” (1943)
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
