Aeschylus Quotes (163 Quotes)

Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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

The words of truth are simple.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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

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

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

A great ox stands on my tongue.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.