Quotes by Aeschylus

The following are quotes from Aeschylus:

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Exiles feed on hope.

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

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

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

The wisest of the wise may err.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

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