Aeschylus Quotes (163 Quotes)

A state that is prosperous always honors the gods.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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.

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

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

She Helen brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

The future you shall know when it has come before then, forget it.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Success is man's god.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

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

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

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

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The worst enemy is one that fears the gods.

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

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

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

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

In war, truth is the first casualty.

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

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

... against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'

Honor modesty more than your life.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Death is better, a milder mover for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals.

What is pleasanter that the tie of host and guest.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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