Aeschylus Quotes - Page 5

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.