Words matter. These are the best Aeschylus Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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.
Time brings all things to pass.
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
God always strives together with those who strive.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
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.
But time growing old teaches all things.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
The wisest of the wise may err.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
The words of truth are simple.
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Time as he grows old teaches all things.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Know not to revere human things too much.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
