Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
By Aeschylus
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
By Aeschylus
The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.
By Aeschylus
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
By Aeschylus
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
By Aeschylus
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
By Aeschylus
And she, after swan-like singing her last and dying song, lies beside him, her lover.
By Aeschylus
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
By Aeschylus
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
By Aeschylus
The reward of suffering is experience.
By Aeschylus
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
By Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
By Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
By Aeschylus
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
By Aeschylus
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
By Aeschylus
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
By Aeschylus
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
By Aeschylus
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
By Aeschylus
What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
By Aeschylus
What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?
By Aeschylus
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
By Aeschylus
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
By Aeschylus
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
By Aeschylus
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
By Aeschylus
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
By Aeschylus
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
By Aeschylus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
By Aeschylus
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
By Aeschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
By Aeschylus
