469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

The unenvied man is not enviable.

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

Time brings all things to pass.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.