Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

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

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

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.