Explore Quotes by Aeschylus

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Delay not to seize the hour!

The reward of suffering is experience

It is always the season for the old to learn.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

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

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

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

God ever works with those who work with will.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

To learn is to be young, however old.