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525 BC–456 BC Greece
Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Also known as: Aischylos, Æschylus
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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
Oresteia (-458)
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Seven Against Thebes (-467)
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Oresteia (-458)
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Oresteia (-458)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Oresteia (-458)
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.
The Persians (-472)
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Oresteia (-458)
When a tongue at the wrong moment shoots off sharp-pointed words to rouse and hurt the spirit, speech may well soothe speech.
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
Justice weighs out learning to those who suffer.
The murmur of a people hath strange weight.
But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.
Oresteia (-458)
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
Oresteia (-458)
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