Top 330 Quotes & Sayings by Aeschylus - Page 3

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

The reward of pain is experience.

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Delay not to seize the hour!

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

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.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Honor modesty more than your life.

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.

Fear is stronger than arms.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

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.

Do not kick against the pricks.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

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

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

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

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.