Quote

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Men
Kick
Kicks
Mortals
Fallen
Mankind
Nature

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
Aeschylus
Image
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
Aeschylus
Image
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
Aeschylus
Image
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Aeschylus
Image
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
Aeschylus
Image
The evils of mortals are manifold nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
Aeschylus
Image
Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
Aeschylus
Image
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Aeschylus
Image
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
Aeschylus
Image
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
Aeschylus
Image
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Aeschylus
Image
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus
Image
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus
Image
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.
Aeschylus
Image
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
Image
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.
Aeschylus
Image
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus
Image
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
Aeschylus
Image
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
Aeschylus
Image
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
Aeschylus