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Aeschylus [-525--456] Greek

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Tragedian

Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. Critics' and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays.

Wisdom, God, Good, Happiness, Inspirational, Men, Power, Time, Trust, Attitude, Best, Death, Dreams, Education, Environmental, Experience, Failure, Fear, Great, Motivational, New Year's, Strength, Success, Sympathy

Quote	Tags	Rank
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.	Inspirational	101
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.		102
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.		103
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.	Environmental, Good	104
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.	God	105
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.	Fear, Good	106
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.	Attitude, Men	107
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.		108
It is always in season for old men to learn.	Education, Men	109
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.	God, Wisdom	110
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.	Happiness	111
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.		112
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.	Great, Sympathy	113
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?	New Year's	114
But time growing old teaches all things.	Time	115
God always strives together with those who strive.	God, Motivational	116
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.	Death	117
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.	Dreams	118
Time brings all things to pass.	Time	119
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.	Wisdom	120
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.		121
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.	Trust	122
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.		123
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.		124
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.		125
For know that no one is free, except Zeus.		126
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.	Experience	201
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.		202
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.	Inspirational	203
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.		204
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.	Success	205
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.		206
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.		207
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.		208
Excessive fear is always powerless.	Power	209
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.		210
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.	Trust	211
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.		212
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.	Best	213
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?		214
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.	Wisdom	215
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.		216
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.		217
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.		218
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.	Happiness	219
The wisest of the wise may err.	Failure	220
Death is softer by far than tyranny.		221
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.		222
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.		223
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.		224
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.		225
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.		226
The words of truth are simple.		301
The man who does ill must suffer ill.		302
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.		303
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?		304
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.	Wisdom	305
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.		306
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.		307
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.		308
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.	Wisdom	309
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.		310
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.		311
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.		312
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.		313
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.		314
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.		315
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.		316
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.		317
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.		318
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.		319
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.	Power	320
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.		321
Know not to revere human things too much.		322
What good is it to live a life that brings pains?		323
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.		324
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.		325
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.		326
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.		401
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?	Strength	402
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.		403
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?		404
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.		405
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.		406
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.		407
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.		408
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.		409
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.		410
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.		411
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.		412
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.		413
Time as he grows old teaches all things.		414
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.		415
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.		416
Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.		417
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.		418
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.		419
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.		420
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.		421
By Time and Age full many things are taught.		422
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?		423

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