Quotes By Aeschylus

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

God always strives together with those who strive.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.