What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Quote by Aeschylus

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not...

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not...

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than...

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than...

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to...

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to...

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

To give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

To give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills...

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills...

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging...

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging...

The wisest of the wise may err.

The wisest of the wise may err.

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

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

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Know not to revere human things too much.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

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

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