Aeschylus Quotes

Every medicine is vain.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

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

To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.

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.'

When a man's willing and eager God joins in.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

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

But time growing old teaches all things.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.