469 Quotes by Aeschylus

PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.

For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person’s happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he’s not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.

Thou beholdest a spectacle ill-sighted to the eye. (Vulcan)

The truthhas to be melted out of our stubborn livesBy suffering.Nothing speaks the truth,Nothing tells us how things really are,Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not what to knowExcept pain.And this is how the gods declare their love.Truth comes with pain.

Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.

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

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

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.