Famous Quotes by Aeschylus
- Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. More
- Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among... More
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they... More
- “Let the doer suffer;” so goes a thrice-old saying. More
- We shall perish by guile just as we slew. More
- For hostile word let hostile word be paid. More
- For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. More
- From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. More
- I say that the dead are slaying the living. More
- Shoals of corpses shall witness, mute, even to generations to come, before the eyes of men that... More
- For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a... More
- My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon... More
- As long as there are men the bulwark is safe. More
- Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him. More
- Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. More
- On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. More
- Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions... More
- You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet. More
- Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. More
- Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length? More
- I know that men in exile feed on hopes. More
- For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. More
- Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm. More
- The rest I keep silent; a great ox stands on my tongue. More
- May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. More
- Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery. More
- We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. More
- The unenvied man is not enviable. More
- Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. More
- I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget. More
- We should know clearly before we discuss this matter; to guess is one thing, to know clearly... More
- And she, after swan-like singing her last and dying song, lies beside him, her lover. More
- Overly persuasive a woman’s ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor... More
- Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits. More
- Ares, gold-changer of bodies. More
- If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. More
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if... More
- Relentless persuasion overbears him, irresistible child of forecounseling destruction. More
- But ancient insolence is wont to bear an insolence that has its youth among human miseries,... More
- For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the... More
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of... More
- For not many men, the proverb saith,
Can love a friend whom fortune prospereth
Unenvying;... More
- Against a spike
Kick not, for fear it pain thee if thou strike. More
- For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in... More
- Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen. More
- By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. More
- In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. More
- I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths. More
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to... More
- You wish to be thought to act justly than to do so. More
- But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up. More
- For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by... More
- Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the... More
- But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of... More
- I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where... More
- Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. More
- It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. More
- It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. More
- Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths. More
- What good is it to live a life that brings pains? More
- When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? More
- God always strives together with those who strive. More
- Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. More
- Nor does the man sitting by the hearth beneath his roof better escape his fated doom. More
- Base men who prosper are unenviable. More
- Know not to revere human things too much. More
- The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. More
- The man who does ill must suffer ill. More
- Zeus is the air, Zeus the earth, Zeus all things and what transcends them all. More
- A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. More
- Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. More
- For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. More
- There is a moment when god honors falsehood. More
- The words of truth are simple. More
- Mourn for me rather as living than as dead. More
- Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. More
- Or don’t you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty? More
- You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. More
- I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. More
- The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus. More
- It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that... More
- For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life. More
- For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word. More
- For know that no one is free, except Zeus. More
- Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? More
- It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. More
- To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is... More
- The best by far is to marry in one’s own rank. More
- Inscribe it in the remembering tablets of your mind. More
- Memory, workmaid and mother of the Muses. More
- Like a bad doctor who has fallen down sick you are cast down, and cannot find what sort of drugs... More
- Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. More
- Champing against the bit as a new-yoked colt, you struggle and fight against the reins. More
- A dreamlike feebleness by which the blind race of man is hampered. More
- For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends. More
- Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. More
- If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks. More
- But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of... More
- Whoever is new to power is always harsh. More
- But time growing old teaches all things. More
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