Quote #22
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
More from Aeschylus
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
- Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
- What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
- Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
- Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
- Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.