Aeschylus Quotes

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

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.

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

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Honor modesty more than your life.

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

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

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

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

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

Fear is stronger than arms.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

Suffering brings experience.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.