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.
AQuote by Aeschylus about treason, hate
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
AQuote by Aeschylus about opinion
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
AQuote by Aeschylus about attitude, silence
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
AQuote by Aeschylus about enemies, contentment
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
AQuote by Aeschylus about friendship, heart, end
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
AQuote 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.
AQuote by Aeschylus about wisdom, moral, problems, light, things
