Aeschylus Quotes (19 quotations)

1. Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. - Aeschylus

2. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. - Aeschylus

3. For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. - Aeschylus

4. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

5. His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. - Aeschylus

6. I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. - Aeschylus

7. I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. - Aeschylus

8. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. - Aeschylus

9. In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus

10. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

11. It is an easy thing for one whose footis on the outside of calamityto give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. - Aeschylus

12. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus

13. O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. - Aeschylus

14. Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. - Aeschylus

15. Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. - Aeschylus

16. The wisest of the wise may err. - Aeschylus

17. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. - Aeschylus

18. Time as he grows old teaches all things. - Aeschylus

19. Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. - Aeschylus

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