Quotes by Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Greek dramatist

Lived from: 525 - 456

Quotes 21 till 40 of 82.

  • Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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  • Excessive fear is always powerless.
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  • For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
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  • For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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  • For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
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  • For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
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  • For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
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  • For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
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  • For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
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  • From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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  • God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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  • God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
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  • He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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  • I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
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  • I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
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  • I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
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  • I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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  • If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
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  • If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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  • In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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