Aeschylus Quotes

Even the old should learn.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Delay not to seize the hour!

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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

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

The reward of pain is experience.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

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

The laws of a state change with the changing times.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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

Know not to revere human things too much.

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

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

Time brings all things to pass.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

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