Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Aeschylus

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.
Aeschylus

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.
Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Aeschylus

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

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
Aeschylus

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.
Aeschylus

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Aeschylus

The man who does ill must suffer ill.
Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus

The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus

The words of truth are simple.
Aeschylus

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

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus