Quote

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Lordly
Decency
Gift
Mind
Men

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus
Image
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus
Image
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
Aeschylus
Image
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus
Image
In war the first casualty is the truth.
Aeschylus
Image
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus
Image
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
Aeschylus
Image
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.
Aeschylus
Image
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
Aeschylus
Image
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Aeschylus
Image
A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
Aeschylus
Image
Only through suffering do we learn
Aeschylus
Image
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
Aeschylus
Image
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
Aeschylus
Image
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
Aeschylus
Image
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus
Image
Wrong must not win by technicalities.
Aeschylus
Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.
Aeschylus
Image
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
Aeschylus
Image
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus