Aeschylus Quotes

You are young and young your rule and you think that 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.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Learning comes through pain.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

A tyrant's trust dishonors those who earn it.

Αἰσχύλον Εὐφορίωνος Ἀθηναῖον τόδε κεύθει
μνῆμα καταφθίμενον πυροφόροιο Γέλας·
ἀλκὴν δ' εὐδόκιμον Μαραθώνιον ἄλσος ἂν εἴποι
καὶ βαθυχαιτήεις Μῆδος ἐπιστάμενο
This gravestone covers Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, from Athens, who died in fertile Gela. The field of Marathon will speak of his bravery, and so will the long haired Mede who knew it well.

Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.

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

There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

We should know what is true before we break our rage.

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.