Top 280 Aeschylus Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

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

— Aeschylus

255. “Excessive fear is always powerless.”

— Aeschylus

256. “Suffering brings experience.”

— Aeschylus

257. “For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.”

— Aeschylus

258. “To make wail and lament for one’s ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.”

— Aeschylus

259. “Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.”

— Aeschylus

260. “Here I am. Look no furter. No one loves you more than I.”

— Aeschylus

261. “Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.”

— Aeschylus

262. “Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.”

— Aeschylus

263. “Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.”

— Aeschylus

264. “Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.”

— Aeschylus

265. “The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.”

— Aeschylus

266. “There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”

— Aeschylus

267. “I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.”

— Aeschylus

268. “Time shell be the limit of my suffering.”

— Aeschylus

269. “You have learned the lesson by experience.”

— Aeschylus

270. “Here he lies like something melting away. His mother’s blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.”

— Aeschylus

271. “I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.”

— Aeschylus

272. “Why love the god all gods detest?”

— Aeschylus

273. “Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”

— Aeschylus

274. “May good prevail, and justify my deed.”

— Aeschylus

275. “What mortal else who hears shall claim he was born immune to the demon of harm?”

— Aeschylus

276. “If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.”

— Aeschylus

277. “Time refines all things that age with time.”

— Aeschylus

278. “Write what I tell you in your book of memory.”

— Aeschylus

279. “And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirit’s wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless Infatuation, beginner of disaster.”

— Aeschylus

280. “We’re not gods; why then expect to enjoy a lifetime of unbroken happiness?”

— Aeschylus

281. “I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.”

— Aeschylus

282. “Man shall learn from man’s lot.”

— Aeschylus

283. “Todo es arduo, menos ser rey de dioses. Que, excepto Zeus, nadie en el mundo es libre.”

— Aeschylus

284. “But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.”

— Aeschylus

285. “What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?”

— Aeschylus

286. “He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding.”

— Aeschylus

287. “This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.”

— Aeschylus

288. “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”

— Aeschylus

289. “In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.”

— Aeschylus

290. “But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.”

— Aeschylus

291. “I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”

— Aeschylus

292. “The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.”

— Aeschylus

293. “God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.”

— Aeschylus

294. “Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.”

— Aeschylus

295. “The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”

— Aeschylus

296. “Honor modesty more than your life.”

— Aeschylus