Aeschylus Quotes

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.

At home there tarries like a lurking snake, Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled, A wily watcher, passionate to slake, In blood, resentment for a murdered child.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

To learn is to be young, however old.

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

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

When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.

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

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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

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

The words of truth are simple.

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.

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

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

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Every medicine is vain.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

Suffering brings experience.

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

A great ox stands on my tongue.

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

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

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