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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