469 Quotes by Aeschylus

I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.

My heart’s a dance of fear.

Cry Sorrow, sorrow – yet let good prevail.

Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped.

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end.

A people’s wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

The so-called mother of the child isn’t the child’s begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster’s a stranger’s sprout.