AESCHYLUS QUOTES IV
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Chained
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
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
And all the country echoeth with the moan,
And poureth many a tear
For that magnific power
Of ancient days far-seen that thou didst share
With those of one blood sprung;
And all the mortal men who hold the plain
Of holy Asia as their land of sojourn,
They grieve in sympathy
For thy woes lamentable.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Kabeiroi
Watchful are the Gods of all
Hands with slaughter stained. The black
Furies wait, and when a man
Has grown by luck, not justice, great,
With sudden overturn of chance
They wear him to a shade, and, cast
Down to perdition, who shall save him?
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus