“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” 

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.” 

"“Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain”"

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.” 

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” 

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” 

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.” 

“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.” 

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.” 

“To learn is to be young, however old.” 

“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn” 

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ” 

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” 

“Suffering brings experience.” 

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.” 

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams” 

“There is no avoidance in delay.” 

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?” 

“Call no man happy till he is dead.” 

“In war, the first casualty is truth.” 

“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death” 

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.” 

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” 

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.” 

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath” 

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.” 

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” 

“The reward of suffering is experience.

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.” 

“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers” 

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.” 

“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” 

“Only through suffering do we learn” 

“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.” 

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.” 

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, 

Descend the many memories of pain” 

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“A great ox stands on my tongue.” 

“He who learns must suffer.” 

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.” 

“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.” 

“We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.” 

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.” 

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person’s happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he’s not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.” 

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

“[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.” 

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“I take my cue from deeds, not words.”