Quote #7
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
More from Aeschylus
- Variant:In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
- For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
- For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
- Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
- Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
- God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
- 'Reverence for parents' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
- On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.