469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.