Quotes from Aeschylus

The words of truth are simple.

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

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Time cleanses what it touches over time.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

God always strives together with those who strive.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

Simple is the speech of truth.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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

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

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

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

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

Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Time brings all things to pass.

Delay not to seize the hour!

In war, truth is the first casualty.