It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
By Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
By Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
By Aeschylus
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
By Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty.
By Aeschylus
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
By Aeschylus
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
By Aeschylus
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.
By Aeschylus
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
By Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
By Aeschylus
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
By Aeschylus
I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
By Aeschylus
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
By Aeschylus
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
By Aeschylus
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
By Aeschylus
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
By Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.
By Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
By Aeschylus
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
By Aeschylus
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
By Aeschylus
God always strives together with those who strive.
By Aeschylus
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
By Aeschylus
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
By Aeschylus
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
By Aeschylus
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
By Aeschylus
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
By Aeschylus
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
By Aeschylus
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
By Aeschylus
For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.
By Aeschylus
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
By Aeschylus
