Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 525 Bc Death: 456 Bc
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors..
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more..
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm i….
The field of doom bears death as its harvest..
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased..
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods..
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things..
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble..
Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood..
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery..
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart..
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted..
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness..
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain..
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win..
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen..
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks..
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by….
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy..
We shall perish by guile just as we slew..