Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “The people’s awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you’ll have to drink is muddy water.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

159. “Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Aeschylus

166. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

170. “Ask the gods nothing excessive.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

175. “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

176. “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

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

— 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

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179. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

183. “Necessity is stronger far than art.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

186. “When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.”

— Aeschylus

187. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

190. “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

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

193. “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

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

— Aeschylus

195. “But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

198. “Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus