More from Aeschylus
- Fragment 392 (220 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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 experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
