Aeschylus quotes

There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief.
- Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.
- Aeschylus

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.
- Aeschylus

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

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
- Aeschylus

It is always in season for old men to learn.
- Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.
- Aeschylus

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.
- Aeschylus

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.
- Aeschylus

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
- Aeschylus

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Aeschylus

In war, truth is the first casualty.
- Aeschylus

The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
- Aeschylus

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.
- Aeschylus

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
- Aeschylus

Only through suffering do we learn
- Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Aeschylus

Wrong must not win by technicalities.
- Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
- Aeschylus

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
- Aeschylus

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
- Aeschylus

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
- Aeschylus

Do not kick against the pricks.
- Aeschylus

Simple is the speech of truth.
- Aeschylus

Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Aeschylus

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 is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.
- Aeschylus

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

Base men who prosper are unenviable.
- Aeschylus

The wisest of the wise may err.
- Aeschylus

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