41 Quotations by Aeschylus
- 1. Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

- 2. Ask the gods nothing excessive.

- 3. Call no man happy ‘til he is dead.

- 4. Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

- 5. Death is softer by far than tyranny.

- 6. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

- 7. Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

- 8. Excessive fear is always powerless.

- 9. Fear is stronger than arms.

- 10. For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

- 11. God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

- 12. He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

- 13. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the ...

- 14. His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

- 15. I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

- 16. I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

- 17. In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

- 18. In war, truth is the first casualty.

- 19. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

- 20. It is always in season for old men to learn.

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