469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Simple is the speech of truth.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too quick to shift From ground to ground; and swift indeed The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.