469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra

I know the stars by heart,the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have--our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall . . .

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Voluptuous promises,Crystalline logic,Caressing assurancesLead him, the slaveOf his own destruction.

Even so is the Libyan fable famed abroad: the eagle, pierced by the bow-sped shaft, looked at the feathered device, and said, “Thus, not by others, but by means of our own plumage, are we slain.