Aeschylus Quotes
- God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
- Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
- God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
- It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
- What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
- It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
- There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred…
- Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
- There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
- What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
- Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
- Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
- It is always in season for old men to learn.
- Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
- Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
- To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.