Aeschylus Tears Quotations

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.