Quotes By Aeschylus

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

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.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

God always strives together with those who strive.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.