Aeschylus Quotes, Men Quotes, Sky Quotes

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Sky Quotes

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Deceit Quotes , Causes Quotes

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Reality Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Shadow Quotes

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Feet Quotes , Light Quotes

If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Envied Quotes

If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Acceptance Quotes

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Summer Quotes , Dog Quotes

It is always the season for the old to learn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Age Quotes , Aging Quotes

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Truth Quotes , Pain Quotes

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Literature Quotes

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Resolve Quotes

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Helping Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Success Quotes , Mother Quotes

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Quality Quotes , Female Quotes

Truth is always the first casualty of war.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , War Quotes , Firsts Quotes

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , People Quotes , Great Power Quotes