469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain.

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

Only through suffering do we learn.

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.

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

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he’ll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.