Aeschylus Quotes

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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

It is always in season for old men to learn.

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

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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

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

God always strives together with those who strive.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

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.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

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.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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

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.

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

But time growing old teaches all things.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

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.

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

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

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

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

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

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

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

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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

The words of truth are simple.