AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)

Aeschylus quote

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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
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The Eumenides


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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, to come to me; of cureless ills thou art the one physician. Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Philoctetes

Tags: death, pain


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


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

Tags: justice


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: night, sin


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


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


The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

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


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: hope


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: wealth, destiny


God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity