Aeschylus Quotes - Page 8

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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.

They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

Success is man's god.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

By suffering comes wisdom.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.