Quotes from Aeschylus

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

Learning comes through pain.

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.

Fear is stronger than arms.

There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.

You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.

CLYTEMNESTRA What ails thee, raising this ado for us? SLAVE I say the dead are come to slay the living.

At home there tarries like a lurking snake, Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled, A wily watcher, passionate to slake, In blood, resentment for a murdered child.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

Pain both ways and what is worse?

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

My heart's a dance of fear.

Time brings all things to pass.

You patronize me like some little woman with no mind to call her own. I speak with heart devoid of fear to those with wit to understand, and you can praise me or condemn me as you like, it's all the same to me.

Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.

we suffer and we learn. And we will know the future when it comes. Greet it too early, weep too soon. It all comes clear in the light of day.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.