Quotes by Aeschylus

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.”

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

“There is no avoidance in delay.”

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -C...”

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

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

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. O...”

“A curse burns bright on crime.”

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”

“Every medicine is vain.”

“Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.”

“Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.”

“To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.”

“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.'”

“When a man's willing and eager God joins in.”