Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Easy
Rebuke
Give
Sufferers
Giving
Calamity
Thing
Foot
Advice
Whose
Outside
Feet
Sufferer
More quotes by Aeschylus
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
Aeschylus
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
Aeschylus
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
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
Aeschylus
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Aeschylus
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
Aeschylus
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
Aeschylus
Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.
Aeschylus
Zeus, first cause, prime mover for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
Aeschylus
The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.
Aeschylus
The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
Aeschylus
Art is far feebler than necessity.
Aeschylus
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus
