Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. — Aeschylus Justice Copy Share Image
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Dawn Copy Share Image
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. — Aeschylus Ruin Copy Share Image
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come… — Aeschylus Altars Copy Share Image
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.” — Aeschylus Compassion Copy Share Image
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the… — Aeschylus Fear Copy Share Image
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth. — Aeschylus Birth Copy Share Image
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. — Aeschylus Envy Copy Share Image
“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one! Tell me, whose voice proclaims Things true and sad, Naming by all their old, unhappy names, What… — Aeschylus Grief Copy Share Image
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is… — Aeschylus Aloof Copy Share Image
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux… — Aeschylus Amorous Copy Share Image
“For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War’s money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to… — aeschylus Ares Copy Share Image
