Top 330 Quotes & Sayings by Aeschylus
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The wisest of the wise may err.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
But time growing old teaches all things.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
God always strives together with those who strive.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
The words of truth are simple.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
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.
Time brings all things to pass.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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