All Quotes by Aeschylus
“God always strives together with those who strive.”
“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.”
“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
“God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.”
“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.”
“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
“By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.”
“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.”
“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain,”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
“Oh, the torment bred in the race,”
“Excessive fear is always powerless.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
“God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.”
“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.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”
“So in the Libyan fable it is toldAre we now smitten."”
“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”
“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”
“O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,Upon a corpse.”
“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”
“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”
“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
“I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
“Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.”
“Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove.”
“On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.”
“I pray the gods will give me some reliefAs the constellations rise and sink.”
“She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.”
“Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.”
“I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.”
“Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.”
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
“Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,rejoices when the heavens send spring rains”
“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Nothing forces us to know”
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”
“The wisest of the wise may err.”
“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”
“What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?”
“Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.”
“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
“God always strives together with those who strive.”
“When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.”
“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”
“God always strives together with those who strive.”
“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.”
“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”