Quotes by Aeschylus with fate

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Lived from: 525 - 456

  • Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
  • 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.
  • When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
  • When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
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  • Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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  • My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
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