Aeschylus Quotes (163 Quotes)

But time growing old teaches all things.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

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

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Know not to revere human things too much.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

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

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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

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.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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.

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.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Do not kick against the pricks.

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

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

... it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

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

to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Fear is stronger than arms.

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

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

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

The wisest of the wise may err.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

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

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

Reverence for parents stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Time brings all things to pass.

By suffering comes wisdom.