For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
By Aeschylus
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
By Aeschylus
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy.
By Aeschylus
Excessive fear is always powerless.
By Aeschylus
Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
By Aeschylus
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
By Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
By Aeschylus
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
By Aeschylus
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
By Aeschylus
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
By Aeschylus
Call no man happy till he is dead.
By Aeschylus
But time growing old teaches all things.
By Aeschylus
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.
By Aeschylus
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.
By Aeschylus
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
By Aeschylus
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
By Aeschylus
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
By Aeschylus
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
By Aeschylus
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.
By Aeschylus
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
By Aeschylus
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
By Aeschylus
'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
By Aeschylus
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
By Aeschylus
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
By Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
By Aeschylus
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
By Aeschylus
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
By Aeschylus
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
By Aeschylus
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
By Aeschylus
