Aeschylus Quotes

For he does not wish to seem but to be just.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

Ares, gold-changer of bodies.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Relentless persuasion overbears him, irresistible child of forecounseling destruction.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.