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Aeschylus Quotes


I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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

It is always in season for old men to learn.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

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.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.