“There is no avoidance in delay.” 

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?” 

“Call no man happy till he is dead.” 

“In war, the first casualty is truth.” 

“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death” 

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.” 

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” 

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.” 

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath” 

“Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.” 

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.” 

“The reward of suffering is experience.

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.” 

“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers” 

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.” 

“In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.” 

“Only through suffering do we learn” 

“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.” 

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.” 

“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, 

Descend the many memories of pain” 

“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”

“A great ox stands on my tongue.” 

“He who learns must suffer.” 

“ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.” 

“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.” 

“We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.” 

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.” 

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person’s happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he’s not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect.” 

“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

“[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.” 

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?”

“I take my cue from deeds, not words.” 

“Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.” 

“You have used me strangely.” 

“Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.” 

“By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.” 

“Fear is stronger than arms.” 

“A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.” 

“For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.” 

“There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.” 

“For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.” 

“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.” 

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” 

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. 

“Yet again, isn’t there something terrible in randomness—the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it’s just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.” 

“You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.” 

“Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.” 

“Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax.”