Aeschylus Quotes
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
The words of truth are simple.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Delay not to seize the hour!
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fa...
Show MoreMemory is the mother of all wisdom.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golde...
Show MoreWords are the physicians of a mind diseased.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortal...
Show MoreIt is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the diseas...
Show MoreAsk the gods nothing excessive.
Time brings all things to pass.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
The wisest of the wise may err.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utte...
Show MoreFear is stronger than arms.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet ...
Show MoreFor somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Who except the gods can live without any pain?
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Call no man happy till he is dead.
When a man's willing and eager God joins in.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
God always strives together with those who strive.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
But time growing old teaches all things.
He hears but half who hears one party only.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balanc...
Show MoreNothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upo...
Show MoreFor it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two...
Show MoreUnanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
My heart's a dance of fear.
A curse burns bright on crime.
There is no avoidance in delay.
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; ...
Show MoreWisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...
Show MoreEvery medicine is vain.
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the...
Show MoreIn visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain
For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War’s money-changer, giving d...
Show MoreHis resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein,the ...
Show MoreAlas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one st...
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