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Aeschylus Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the greek poet Aeschylus on topics like wise, gods, suffering

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

    — Aeschylus on character
    79
  • The reward of suffering is experience.

    — Aeschylus on adversity
    15
  • Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

    — Aeschylus on suffering
    15
  • It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

    — Aeschylus on advice
    9
  • It is always in season for old men to learn.

    — Aeschylus on learning
    8
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  • There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

    — Aeschylus on kindness
    8
  • Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

    — Aeschylus on death
    7
  • The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

    — Aeschylus on power
    7
  • For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

    — Aeschylus on children
    5
  • When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

    — Aeschylus on willpower
    5
  • God always strives together with those who strive.

    — Aeschylus on god
    5
  • Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

    — Aeschylus on memory
    4
  • About Aeschylus

    Name Aeschylus
    Quotes 108 quotations
    Nationality Greek
    Profession Poet
    Birthday October 16
    About Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
    Top topics wise, gods, suffering, wisdom, death
  • When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

    — Aeschylus on justice
    4
  • It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

    — Aeschylus on promises
    3
  • When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

    — Aeschylus on marriage
    3
  • God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

    — Aeschylus on independence
    2
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  • Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

    — Aeschylus on boast
    2
  • Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

    — Aeschylus on god
    2
  • Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

    — Aeschylus on leadership
    2
  • He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

    — Aeschylus on envy
    2
  • Death is softer by far than tyranny.

    — Aeschylus on tyranny
    1
  • When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

    — Aeschylus on willpower
    1
  • Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground -- answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now.

    — Aeschylus on death
    1
  • Call no man happy till he is dead.

    — Aeschylus on happiness
    1
  • The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

    — Aeschylus on advance
    1
  • I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

    — Aeschylus on dreams
    1
  • Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

    — Aeschylus on bronze
    1
  • 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.

    — Aeschylus on anarchy
    1
  • Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

    — Aeschylus on pain
    1
  • In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

    — Aeschylus on tyranny
    1
  • Drop, dropin our sleep, upon the heartsorrow falls, memorys pain,and to us, though against our very will,even in our own despite,comes wisdomby the awful grace of God.

    — Aeschylus on drop
    1
  • A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

    — Aeschylus on god
    0
  • But time growing old teaches all things.

    — Aeschylus on time
    0
  • Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

    — Aeschylus on passion
    0
  • 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.

    — Aeschylus on affairs
    0
  • And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

    — Aeschylus on blood
    0
  • We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

    — Aeschylus on perish
    0
  • I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

    — Aeschylus on win
    0
  • Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

    — Aeschylus on love
    0
  • I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

    — Aeschylus on hate
    0
  • Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

    — Aeschylus on blame
    0
  • Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

    — Aeschylus on gods
    0
  • The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

    — Aeschylus on trouble
    0
  • For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

    — Aeschylus on parent
    0
  • The man who does ill must suffer ill.

    — Aeschylus on suffer
    0
  • His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

    — Aeschylus on resolve
    0
  • We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

    — Aeschylus on life
    0
  • What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

    — Aeschylus on woman
    0
  • The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

    — Aeschylus on wise
    0
  • The words of truth are simple.

    — Aeschylus on simple
    0
  • Related Topics

    • character
    • men
    • honor
    • envy
    • friend
    • prospered
    • adversity
    • reward
    • suffering
    • experience
    • wisdom
    • advice
    • easy
    • prosperity
    • give
    • afflicted
    • learning
    • season
    • learn
    • kindness
    • sickness
    • worse
    • words
    • kind
    • lie
    • death
    • desire
    • gifts
    • gods
    • power
    • man
    • authority
    • recent
    • stern
    • children

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