80 Famous Quotes by Aeschylus
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek playwright who is considered one of the founders of Western drama. He wrote more than 80 plays, many of which dealt with themes of justice, revenge, and the nature of the gods. Aeschylus was a master of his craft, and his work has had a profound influence on the development of drama and literature in the Western world. His legacy continues to inspire playwrights and artists to this day. (Aeschylus Biography).
Aeschylus Famous Quotes
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. (Meaning)
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. (Meaning)
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. (Meaning)
In war, truth is the first casualty. (Meaning)
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. (Meaning)
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you. (Meaning)
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. (Meaning)
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. (Meaning)
Only through suffering do we learn (Meaning)
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. (Meaning)
Call no man happy till he is dead. (Meaning)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. (Meaning)
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. (Meaning)
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. (Meaning)
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. (Meaning)
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. (Meaning)
Time brings all things to pass. (Meaning)
God always strives together with those who strive. (Meaning)
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. (Meaning)
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest? (Meaning)
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. (Meaning)
It is through suffering that learning comes. (Meaning)
The reward of suffering is experience (Meaning)
Everyone's quick to blame the alien. (Meaning)
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Meaning)
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. (Meaning)
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? (Meaning)
Truth is always the first casualty of war. (Meaning)
A great ox stands on my tongue. (Meaning)
For know that no one is free, except Zeus. (Meaning)
In war the first casualty is the truth. (Meaning)
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Time brings all things to pass.
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
God always strives together with those who strive.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
The words of truth are simple.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
― Aeschylus Quotes
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