469 Quotes by Aeschylus

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

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

Time in its aging course teaches all things.

If bright water you stain with mud, you nevermore will find it fit to drink.

To make wail and lament for one’s ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Nor does night conceal men’s deeds of ill, but whatsoe’er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.