Quote #19
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
More from Aeschylus
- Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
- Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
- Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
- Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.