Aeschylus Quotes

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.

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Also known as: Aischylos, Æschylus

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.

The Persians (-472)

I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.

Oresteia (-458)

What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

Oresteia (-458)

Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.

I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.

Oresteia (-458)

Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.

The Persians (-472)

He or silence keeps or speaks in season.

Seven Against Thebes (-467)

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

Still from the living root the mantling green
Against the Dog-star spreads a leafy screen.

Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.

Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

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

Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue punishment is inflicted?

If any one bear evil, let it be
Without disgrace, sole profit to the dead;
On base and evil deeds no glory waits.

Seven Against Thebes (-467)

For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down.
Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.

I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again. (tr. Gilbert Murray)

Oresteia (-458)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aeschylus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.