Facts about Aeschylus 
Summary
Aeschylus was a famous Poet from Greece, who lived between 525 BC and 456 BC.
Biography
Aiskhylos (or Aiskylos, Aeschylus, Aeschylus) was a playwright of ancient Greece, together with Euripides and Sophocles one of the three major Greek tragikerne.
Aiskhylos was born in Eleusis in Attica. He lived mainly in Athens and in Sicily, where he died. He wrote his first plays in 498 BC, but his earliest surviving piece of the Persians, performed the first time in 472 BC. The play deals with the battle of Salamis, which was one of many in the fight against the Persians. Aiskhylos participated actively in this and partly also in the battles of Marathon and Plataea.
He should have written over 90 works, of which only seven have survived to our days. These are Persians (472 BC), The 7 against Thebes (467 BC), the pleading, Promethevs in chains and Oresteia (458 BC). Oresteia is a trilogy consisting of Agamemnon, and the atoning sacrifice Eumenidene. Our collection contains 90 quotes who is written / told by Aeschylus, under the main topics: Death, Education, Environmental, Power, Success.
Related authors: Euripides, Sophocles
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus
Famous quotes by Aeschylus (90)
"Death is softer by far than tyranny"
"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"
"For hostile word let hostile word be paid"
"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight"
"God loves to help him who strives to help himself"
"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired"
"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils"
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom"
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls"
"We shall perish by guile just as we slew"
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors"
"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen"
"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly"
"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death"
"God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard"
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish"
"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence"
"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen"
"Time brings all things to pass"
"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"
"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house"
"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"
"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain"
"By Time and Age full many things are taught"
"For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone"
"For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends"
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness"
"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune"
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend"
"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted"
"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath"
"Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?"
"Wisdom comes alone through suffering"
"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin"
"Call no man happy till he is dead"
"Excessive fear is always powerless"
"God always strives together with those who strive"
"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery"
"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house"
"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel"
"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things"
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm"
"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune"
"We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity"
"When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?"
"Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind"
"Everyone's quick to blame the alien"
"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock"
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow"
"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers"
"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill"
"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead"
"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"
"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise"
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts"
"But time growing old teaches all things"
"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"
"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget"
"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence"
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering"
"The man who does ill must suffer ill"
"Time as he grows old teaches all things"
"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense"
"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 polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water"
"For know that no one is free, except Zeus"
"If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful"
"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents"
"It is always in season for old men to learn"
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered"
"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts"
"The wisest of the wise may err"
"There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie"
"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"
"It is always in season for old men to learn"
"Excessive fear is always powerless"
"Call no man happy till he is dead"
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water"
"But time growing old teaches all things"
"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might"
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship"
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer"
"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy"
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief"
"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift"
"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble"
"When a match has equal partners then I fear not"
"Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety"
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough"
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