469 Quotes by Aeschylus

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Delay not to seize the hour!

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.