Aeschylus Quotes

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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

God always strives together with those who strive.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life’s span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others’ hands, Are we now smitten.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

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.