Aeschylus Quotes

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Only through suffering do we learn

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

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

He who learns must suffer.

They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain

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.

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

I take my cue from deeds, not words.