Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

206. “You have used me strangely.”

— Aeschylus

207. “Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever’s on his mind.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

210. “Give me an answer which is plain to understand.”

— Aeschylus

211. “Even the old should learn.”

— Aeschylus

212. “For hostile word let hostile word be paid.”

— Aeschylus

213. “For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.”

— Aeschylus

214. “Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.”

— Aeschylus

215. “The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...”

— Aeschylus

216. “When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.”

— Aeschylus

217. “For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.”

— Aeschylus

218. “Death is softer by far than tyranny.”

— Aeschylus

219. “For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?”

— Aeschylus

220. “Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

222. “Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.”

— Aeschylus

223. “You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.”

— Aeschylus

224. “The seed of mortals broods o’er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud’s shadow.”

— Aeschylus

225. “Cry Sorrow, sorrow – yet let good prevail.”

— Aeschylus

226. “For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.”

— Aeschylus

227. “A curse burns bright on crime.”

— Aeschylus

228. “Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.”

— Aeschylus

229. “Overly persuasive a woman’s ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.”

— Aeschylus

230. “For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.”

— Aeschylus

231. “My heart’s a dance of fear.”

— Aeschylus

232. “Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.”

— Aeschylus

233. “What good is it to live a life that brings pains?”

— Aeschylus

234. “No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven’s anger Or deflect its aim.”

— Aeschylus

235. “Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.”

— Aeschylus

236. “Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.”

— Aeschylus

237. “God’s mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”

— Aeschylus

238. “Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.”

— Aeschylus

239. “Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.”

— Aeschylus

240. “The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.”

— Aeschylus

241. “Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.”

— Aeschylus

242. “I have not need to promise what I cannot do.”

— Aeschylus

243. “Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.”

— Aeschylus

244. “Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.”

— Aeschylus

245. “Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.”

— Aeschylus

246. “But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.”

— Aeschylus

247. “Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.”

— Aeschylus

248. “When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.”

— Aeschylus

249. “The best by far is to marry in one’s own rank.”

— Aeschylus

250. “Yet again, isn’t there something terrible in randomness – the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it’s just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.”

— Aeschylus