Aeschylus Quotes - Page 4

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

Honor modesty more than your life.

The words of truth are simple.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

God always strives together with those who strive.

. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

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

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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.