Quotes By Aeschylus

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

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

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

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

The wisest of the wise may err.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The words of truth are simple.

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

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.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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.

Call no man happy till he is dead.