Aeschylus Quotes

Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. Academics' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in the theater and allowed conflict among them; characters previously had interacted only with the chorus. ...more

Birth: December 14, 0524 - Death: December 23, 0455

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Topic(s): Dies , Feet , Libertarian

In war the first casualty is the truth.

Topic(s): Firsts , War , Political

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Topic(s): Young , Evil , Sin

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

Topic(s): Slavery , Yoke

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Topic(s): Hate , Disease , I Have Learned

From a just fraud God turneth not away.

Topic(s): Fraud

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Topic(s): Literature , Guile

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.

Topic(s): Heaven , Mouths , Aim

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Topic(s): Hands , Courses , Blood

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Topic(s): Men , Love , Love Is

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

Topic(s): Literature , Evil , Best Gift

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Topic(s): Knows , Speak , Literature

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Aeschylus Quotes