"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."
Read quote
7 likes
Quote collection
Aeschylus quotes (page 7 of 16)
320 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain."
Read quote
7 likes
"Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us."
Read quote
7 likes
"Mourn for me rather as living than as dead."
Read quote
7 likes
"Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes."
Read quote
7 likes
"Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you."
Read quote
7 likes
"Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears."
Read quote
7 likes
"For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill."
Read quote
7 likes
"The reward of suffering is experience"
Read quote
7 likes
"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."
Read quote
7 likes
"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."
Read quote
7 likes
"Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath."
Read quote
7 likes
"Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm."
Read quote
7 likes
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."
Read quote
7 likes
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
Read quote
7 likes
"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts."
Read quote
7 likes
"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
Read quote
7 likes
"I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death"
Read quote
7 likes