Quotes by Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.
– Aeschylus
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
– Aeschylus
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
– Aeschylus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
– Aeschylus
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
– Aeschylus
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.
– Aeschylus
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
– Aeschylus
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
– Aeschylus
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
– Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
– Aeschylus
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
– Aeschylus
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
– Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
– Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
– Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
– Aeschylus
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
– Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
– Aeschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
– Aeschylus
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
– Aeschylus
Time brings all things to pass.
– Aeschylus
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
– Aeschylus
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
– Aeschylus
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
– Aeschylus
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
– Aeschylus
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
– Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty.
– Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
– Aeschylus
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
– Aeschylus
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
– Aeschylus
Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
– Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
– Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
– Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
– Aeschylus
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
– Aeschylus
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
– Aeschylus
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
– Aeschylus
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
– Aeschylus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
– Aeschylus
The words of truth are simple.
– Aeschylus
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
– Aeschylus
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
– Aeschylus
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
– Aeschylus
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.
– Aeschylus
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
– Aeschylus
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
– Aeschylus
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
– Aeschylus
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
– Aeschylus
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
– Aeschylus
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
– Aeschylus
God always strives together with those who strive.
– Aeschylus
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.
– Aeschylus
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
– Aeschylus
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
– Aeschylus
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
– Aeschylus
Excessive fear is always powerless.
– Aeschylus
Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
– Aeschylus
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
– Aeschylus
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
– Aeschylus
But time growing old teaches all things.
– Aeschylus
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
– Aeschylus
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.
– Aeschylus