Quotes from Aeschylus

No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Art is far feebler than necessity.

Necessity is stronger far than art.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

To give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

The reward of pain is experience.

The reward of suffering is experience

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Excessive fear is always powerless.