Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When a man’s willing and eager the god’s join in.”

— Aeschylus

52. “In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.”

— Aeschylus

53. “For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.”

— Aeschylus

54. “Call no man happy till he is dead.”

— Aeschylus

55. “But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who’s dead.”

— Aeschylus

56. “But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.”

— Aeschylus

57. “Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”

— Aeschylus

58. “I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

60. “Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.”

— Aeschylus

61. “Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.”

— Aeschylus

62. “The unenvied man is not enviable.”

— Aeschylus

63. “The field of doom bears death as its harvest.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

65. “Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.”

— Aeschylus

66. “Simple is the speech of truth.”

— Aeschylus

67. “Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.”

— Aeschylus

68. “When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.”

— Aeschylus

69. “For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”

— Aeschylus

70. “It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”

— Aeschylus

71. “Look at him, look how he drips unhealth – shudder object!”

— Aeschylus

73. “Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.”

— Aeschylus

74. “Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.”

— Aeschylus

75. “On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.”

— Aeschylus

76. “I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.”

— Aeschylus

77. “Wrong must not win by technicalities.”

— Aeschylus

78. “It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.”

— Aeschylus

79. “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

80. “Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.”

— Aeschylus

81. “Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.”

— Aeschylus

82. “To learn is to be young, however old.”

— Aeschylus

83. “O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.”

— Aeschylus

84. “Nor does night conceal men’s deeds of ill, but whatsoe’er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

86. “A great ox stands on my tongue.”

— Aeschylus

87. “Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end.”

— Aeschylus

88. “It is always in season for old men to learn.”

— Aeschylus

89. “Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”

— Aeschylus

90. “A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.”

— Aeschylus

91. “The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.”

— Aeschylus

92. “Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.”

— Aeschylus

93. “This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.”

— Aeschylus

94. “The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.”

— Aeschylus

95. “Art is far feebler than necessity.”

— Aeschylus

96. “For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.”

— Aeschylus

97. “A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life’s end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.”

— Aeschylus

98. “I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”

— Aeschylus

99. “Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you’re wasting your time in appeasing the dead.”

— Aeschylus

100. “Do not kick against the pricks.”

— Aeschylus