Aeschylus

Delay not to seize the hour!

— Aeschylus

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

— Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.

— Aeschylus

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

— Aeschylus

Excessive fear is always powerless.

— Aeschylus

“Every medicine is vain.”

— Aeschylus

The words of truth are simple.

— Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

— Aeschylus

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

— Aeschylus

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”

— Aeschylus

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

— Aeschylus

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

— Aeschylus

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

— Aeschylus

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

— Aeschylus

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

— Aeschylus

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it…

— Aeschylus

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

— Aeschylus

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

— Aeschylus

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and…

— Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

— Aeschylus

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion…

— Aeschylus

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a…

— Aeschylus

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend…

— Aeschylus

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your…

— Aeschylus

The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws…

— Aeschylus

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed…

— Aeschylus

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened…

— Aeschylus

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds…

— Aeschylus

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

— Aeschylus

The reward of pain is experience.

— Aeschylus

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

— Aeschylus

“He who learns must suffer.”

— Aeschylus

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

— Aeschylus

Simple is the speech of truth.

— Aeschylus

Time brings all things to pass.

— Aeschylus

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

— Aeschylus