Aeschylus Quotes on Man (19 Quotes)

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.

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.

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

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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

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

Hell to ships, hell to men, hell to cities - of Helen of Troy

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.