AESCHYLUS QUOTES V
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
AESCHYLUS
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fragment, Kabeiroi
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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
Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Ixion
It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Toxotides
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
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
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
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
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
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment