Aeschylus

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

— Aeschylus

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

— Aeschylus

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

— Aeschylus

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

— Aeschylus

It is through suffering that learning comes.

— Aeschylus

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

— Aeschylus

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

— Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

— Aeschylus

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given…

— Aeschylus

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has…

— Aeschylus

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

— Aeschylus

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one…

— Aeschylus

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

— Aeschylus

“A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength…

— Aeschylus

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

— Aeschylus

“Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god…

— Aeschylus

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

— Aeschylus

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

— Aeschylus

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”

— Aeschylus

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

— Aeschylus

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

— Aeschylus

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

— Aeschylus

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

— Aeschylus

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

— Aeschylus

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

— Aeschylus

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

— Aeschylus

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

— Aeschylus

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

— Aeschylus

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

— Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.

— Aeschylus

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

— Aeschylus

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

— Aeschylus

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

— Aeschylus

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

— Aeschylus

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

— Aeschylus

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

— Aeschylus

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

— Aeschylus

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

— Aeschylus

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

— Aeschylus

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

— Aeschylus