Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.”

— Aeschylus

152. “Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.”

— Aeschylus

153. “His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”

— Aeschylus

154. “Obedience, you know, is Good Luck’s mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

156. “Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

158. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

161. “If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.”

— Aeschylus

162. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

165. “Ask the gods nothing excessive.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

180. “Necessity is stronger far than art.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

182. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

185. “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

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

— Aeschylus

187. “The force of necessity is irresistible.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Aeschylus

192. “Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.”

— Aeschylus

193. “To many mortals silence great gain brings.”

— Aeschylus

194. “But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.”

— Aeschylus

195. “Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.”

— Aeschylus

196. “Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.”

— Aeschylus

197. “You have used me strangely.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus