469 Quotes by Aeschylus

Here he lies like something melting away. His mother’s blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.

Overly persuasive a woman’s ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom’s fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word – every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.

To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.

By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.

You’ll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents – you’ll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

We nearly always live through screens – a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that I have been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.4.

Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever’s on his mind.