469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.