Quotes by Aeschylus

God ever works with those who work with will.

When one is willing and eager, the gods join in.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time. Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970. - Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

. . . it is yours [women's] to be silent and stay within doors.

The wisest of the wise may err.

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair, against our own will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.