Aeschylus famous quotes

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

#Happiness #Positivity #Choices

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
-- Aeschylus

#Silence #Speech #Misery

In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- Aeschylus

#Peace #War #Fighting

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

#Inspirational #Sympathy #God

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

#Feet #Knees #Progressive

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

#Friendship #Jealousy #Character

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
-- Aeschylus

#Inspirational #May #Trunks

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

#Strength #Success #Men

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

#Education #Men #Literature

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
-- Aeschylus

#Positive #Wisdom #Intelligence

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
-- Aeschylus

#Destiny #Men #Waiting

God ever works with those who work with will.
-- Aeschylus

#Inspirational

But time growing old teaches all things.
-- Aeschylus

#Time #Hunting #Growing

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
-- Aeschylus

#House #Literature #Vote

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
-- Aeschylus

#Envy #Literature #Admiration

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
-- Aeschylus

#Inspirational #Mother #Wisdom

Time brings all things to pass.
-- Aeschylus

#Time #Time Management

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

#Missing You #Pain #Memories

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
-- Aeschylus

#Success #Mother #Safety

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
-- Aeschylus

#Medicine #Community #Hatred

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
-- Aeschylus

#Mother #Father #Law

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
-- Aeschylus

#Stupidity #Fool #Burden

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
-- Aeschylus

#Lying #Tyrants #Excellence

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

#House #Guilt #Demise

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
-- Aeschylus

#Fate #Liberty #Tyranny

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

#Literature #Want #Ruins

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

#Believe #Men #Promise

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

#Justice #Suffering #Literature

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

#Wise #Stupid #Inspiration

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
-- Aeschylus

#Resolve

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
-- Aeschylus

#Dream #Men #Literature

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

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

#Youth #Teach

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

#Men #Sight #Justice

Call no man happy till he is dead.
-- Aeschylus

#Happiness #Death #Men

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #World #This World

The reward of suffering is experience
-- Aeschylus

#Adversity #Suffering #Rewards

Delay not to seize the hour!
-- Aeschylus

#Procrastination #Delay #Hours

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

#Inspirational #Fear #Heart

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 ....
-- Aeschylus

#Strong #Rain #Animal

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

#Marriage #Wedding #Men

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death
-- Aeschylus

#Eye

Excessive fear is always powerless.
-- Aeschylus

#Power #Powerless

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
-- Aeschylus

#Pain #Rowing #Advantage

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

#Feet #Giving #Advice

There is no avoidance in delay.
-- Aeschylus

#Delay #Resolve #Avoidance

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

#Love #Spiritual #Men

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
-- Aeschylus

#Political #Aliens #Blame

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

#Love #God #Helping Others

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Pigs #Praying

Success is man's god.
-- Aeschylus

#Success #Men

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
-- Aeschylus

#People #Envy #Achievement

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
-- Aeschylus

#Destiny #Long #Praying

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

#Giving #Political #Advice

Fear is stronger than arms.
-- Aeschylus

#Fear #Stronger #Arms

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
-- Aeschylus

#Feet #Evil #Offence

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
-- Aeschylus

#Fire #Black

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
-- Aeschylus

#Sacrifice #Offering #Hymns

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
-- Aeschylus

#Clouds #Shadow #Passing

Words are healers of the sick tempered.
-- Aeschylus

#Sick #Healer

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Fire #Broken

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
-- Aeschylus

#Eye #Knowing #Bed

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
-- Aeschylus

#Heart #Blow #Wind

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

#Literature #Easier #Born

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Sky #Proud

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

#Work #Men #Haste

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Fortune #Good Fortune

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
-- Aeschylus

#Causes #Done #Firsts

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
-- Aeschylus

#Fashion #Eagles #Hands

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
-- Aeschylus

#Evil #Ignorant #Knowledgeable

Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
-- Aeschylus

#Intelligent #Decision #Brain

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
-- Aeschylus

#Deceit #Causes #Holy

In war the first casualty is the truth.
-- Aeschylus

#War #Political #Firsts

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
-- Aeschylus

#Memories #Grief #Heart

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

#Life #Men #Prosperity

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
-- Aeschylus

#Quality #Female #Deceit

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
-- Aeschylus

#Justice #Suffering #Coping

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
-- Aeschylus

#Yoke #Slavery

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
-- Aeschylus

#Heart #Wine #Mirrors

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
-- Aeschylus

#Time #Justice #Unseen

In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. Quoted by Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., the evening of April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana. These words, lacking "own," have been used as one of the inscriptions at the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.
-- Aeschylus

#Wisdom #Kings #Pain

Wisdom cometh by suffering.
-- Aeschylus

#Wisdom #Suffering

Honor modesty more than your life.
-- Aeschylus

#Honor #Modesty

From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
-- Aeschylus

#Heaven #Persuasion #Aloof

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
-- Aeschylus

#Toil #Fame

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
-- Aeschylus

#Fall #Pride #Riches

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
-- Aeschylus

#Children #Soul #Arrogance

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
-- Aeschylus

#Men #Blood #Dust

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
-- Aeschylus

#Wings #Evil #Literature

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
-- Aeschylus

#Fate #Justice #Doe

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
-- Aeschylus

#Power #Literature #Harsh

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
-- Aeschylus

#News #Firsts #Ill

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

#Children #Men #Literature

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
-- Aeschylus

#Light #Feet #Suffering

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
-- Aeschylus

#Oil #Opponents #Vinegar

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
-- Aeschylus

#Literature #Speak #Forget

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
-- Aeschylus

#Blood #Hands #Flow

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
-- Aeschylus

#Blow #Literature

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
-- Aeschylus

#Hate #Hands #Enemy