469 Quotes by Aeschylus

No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Call no man happy till he is dead.