Quotes by Aeschylus, page 2
80 quotes by Aeschylus
Aeschylus - greek poet dramatist
Also called: Aischylos.
Life period: 525 BC - 456 BC
Origin country: Greece
Biography: Aeschylus is one of the most important playwrights of ancient Greece and is known as one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Euripides and Sophocles. He is believed to have been born around 525 BC. in the city of Eleusis, and...
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Quote by Aeschylus about treason, hate
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Quote by Aeschylus about opinion
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Quote by Aeschylus about attitude, silence
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Quote by Aeschylus about enemies
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Quote by Aeschylus about friendship, heart, end
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
Quote by Aeschylus about judgment, home, house, rightness
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, moral, problems, light, things
