469 Quotes by Aeschylus

The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.