Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
delay resolve avoidance
There is no avoidance in delay.
giving political advice
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
inspirational fear heart
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
love spiritual men
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
feet giving advice
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
envy literature admiration
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
fate liberty agamemnon
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
trust spring heart
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
time hunting growing
But time growing old teaches all things.
procrastination delay hours
Delay not to seize the hour!
stupidity fool burden
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
strong rain men
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....
love god helping-others
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
suffering despair
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.