Aeschylus (525 – 456BC), Greek poet and dramatist
Death is better, a milder fate, than tyranny.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is in the character of very few men to honour without envy a friend who has prospered.
Only when man’s life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
For somehow this is tyranny’s disease – to trust no friends.
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
In war, truth is the first casualty.