Quote #25
What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
More from Aeschylus
- For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
- Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
- Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
- God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
- Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
- God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
- I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.