Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.”

— Aeschylus

152. “No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout – ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later.” Chorus, Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” from the Oresteia.”

— Aeschylus

153. “For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”

— Aeschylus

154. “Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”

— Aeschylus

155. “Ask the gods nothing excessive.”

— Aeschylus

156. “As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.”

— Aeschylus

157. “By Time and Age full many things are taught.”

— Aeschylus

158. “But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.”

— Aeschylus

159. “For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.”

— Aeschylus

160. “Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.”

— Aeschylus

161. “I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”

— Aeschylus

162. “Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

— Aeschylus

163. “I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he’ll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.”

— Aeschylus

164. “The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.”

— Aeschylus

165. “The man whose authority is recent is always stern.”

— Aeschylus

166. “They who prosper take on airs of vanity.”

— Aeschylus

167. “We nearly always live through screens – a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that I have been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.4.”

— Aeschylus

168. “Time cleanses what it touches over time.”

— Aeschylus

169. “Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.”

— Aeschylus

170. “No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.”

— Aeschylus

171. “Words are healers of the sick tempered.”

— Aeschylus

172. “Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.”

— Aeschylus

173. “Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.”

— Aeschylus

174. “The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.”

— Aeschylus

175. “A people’s wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.”

— Aeschylus

176. “I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”

— Aeschylus

177. “Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.”

— Aeschylus

178. “Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.”

— Aeschylus

179. “To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.”

— Aeschylus

180. “The force of necessity is irresistible.”

— Aeschylus

181. “Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?”

— Aeschylus

182. “There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.”

— Aeschylus

183. “Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.”

— Aeschylus

184. “He hears but half who hears one party only.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

186. “The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.”

— Aeschylus

187. “Necessity is stronger far than art.”

— Aeschylus

188. “For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.”

— Aeschylus

189. “Number, the most excellent of all inventions.”

— Aeschylus

190. “Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

192. “Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.”

— Aeschylus

193. “The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.”

— Aeschylus

194. “There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.”

— Aeschylus

195. “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

196. “In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend’s prosperity without begrudging him.”

— Aeschylus

197. “But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.”

— Aeschylus

198. “Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.”

— Aeschylus

199. “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

200. “Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.”

— Aeschylus