469 Quotes by Aeschylus

The power that holds the sky’s majesty wins our worship.

The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck’s mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn.

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you’re wasting your time in appeasing the dead.

God’s mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Give me an answer which is plain to understand.