Quotes By Aeschylus

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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.

Know not to revere human things too much.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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

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

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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

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?

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

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.

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

The wisest of the wise may err.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.