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Aeschylus Quotes



Quotes by Aeschylus - (20 quotes)

Aeschylus - From the Advice category:

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Aging category:

But time growing old teaches all things. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Confidence category:

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Envy category:

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Fear category:

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Fear category:

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Friendship category:

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Goodness category:

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Growth category:

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Guilt category:

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Happiness category:

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Health category:

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Memory category:

Memory is the mother of all wisdom. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Mirrors category:

Bronze is the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Prosperity category:

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter / Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes / A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Silence category:

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Sleep category:

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Suffering category:

The reward of suffering is experience. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Survival category:

Necessity is stronger far than art. (Aeschylus)

Aeschylus - From the Wisdom category:

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