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Aeschylus

Category: Greek Poet
Type: Poet
National: Greek

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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those...

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is...

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

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly...

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like...

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate...

And one who is just of his own free will...

And though all streams flow from a single course to...

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

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

But time growing old teaches all things....

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find...

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

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

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never...

Death is softer by far than tyranny....

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as...

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a...

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

Excessive fear is always powerless....

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone....

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

For hostile word let hostile word be paid....

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

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust...

For the impious act begets more after it, like to...

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles...

For there is no defense for a man who, in...

For this is the mark of a wise and upright...

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

God always strives together with those who strive....

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

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

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

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

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

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep...

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to...

I say you must not win an unjust case by...

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

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I...

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

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame;...

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel,...

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this...

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one...

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot...

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to...

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

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is...

It is an ill thing to be the first to...

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

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give...

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

It is in the character of very few men to...

It is not the oath that makes us believe the...

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

Know not to revere human things too much....

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom....

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead....

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how...

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot...

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

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

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough....

Only when a man's life comes to its end in...

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride...

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is...

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

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who...

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of...

The man who does ill must suffer ill....

The man whose authority is recent is always stern....

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man...

The wisest of the wise may err....

The words of truth are simple....

There are times when fear is good. It must keep...

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at...

There is no pain so great as the memory of...

There is no sickness worse for me than words that...

Time as he grows old teaches all things....

Time brings all things to pass....

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

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain...

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune....

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless...

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life...

We shall perish by guile just as we slew....

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

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman...

What good is it to live a life that brings...

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host...

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

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

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier...

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

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his...

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without...

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

Wisdom comes alone through suffering....

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased....

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin...