Quotes from Aeschylus

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.'

When a man's willing and eager, God joins in.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

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

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

By suffering comes wisdom.

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

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.