Aeschylus Quotes

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

The reward of suffering is experience

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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

It is always in season for old men to learn

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Time brings all things to pass.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.