Explore Quotes by Aeschylus

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Fear is stronger than arms.

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!'.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

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 others' hands, Are we now smitten.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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

With our own feathers, not by others' hands,_x000D_ Are we now smitten.

Wisdom comes through suffering._x000D_Trouble, with its memories of pain,_x000D_Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,_x000D_So men against their will_x000D_Learn to practice moderation._x000D_Favours come to us from gods.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.