AESCHYLUS QUOTES V
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
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Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
AESCHYLUS
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The Libation Bearers
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For wide, ah! wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the wall;
There is havoc and terror and flame, and the dark smoke broods over all,
And wild is the war-god's breath, as in frenzy of conquest he springs,
And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest things!
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
AESCHYLUS
Libation Bearers
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Ixion
Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon