Aeschylus Quotes
- Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
- Death is softer by far than tyranny.
- God always strives together with those who strive.
- It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
- The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
- Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
- A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
- Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
- Excessive fear is always powerless.
- Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
- The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
- The wisest of the wise may err.
- When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
- When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
- Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
- You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
- And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
- For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
- For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
- For hostile word let hostile word be paid.