Quotes by Aeschylus

"Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."

"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

"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."

"God always strives together with those who strive."

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

"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."

"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."

"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin."

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

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

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

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

"The words of truth are simple."

"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."

"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

"It is always in season for old men to learn."

"It is best for the wise man not to seem wise."

"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen."

"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."

"But time growing old teaches all things."

"Time brings all things to pass."

"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy."

"I know how men in exile feed on dreams."

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

"Everyone's quick to blame the alien."

"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."

"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."

"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."

"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"

"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."

"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends."

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

"Excessive fear is always powerless."

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."

"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."

"For know that no one is free, except Zeus."

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift."

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."

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

"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind."

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

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

"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."

"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water."

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."

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

"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety."

"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."

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