469 Quotes by Aeschylus

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

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.

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.