AESCHYLUS QUOTES II

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

Aeschylus quote

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: pain


God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: God


Lo, when man's force doth ope
The virgin doors, there is no cure nor hope
For what is lost.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: virginity


A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: death


The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides

Tags: law


Where are my many promised gifts and spoils of war? Where are my bold and silver cups?

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Perrhaibides

Tags: war


Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: arrogance


Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fools, prosperity


A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fools, success


No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Pourers

Tags: sin


Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: slavery


Success is man's god.

AESCHYLUS

Choephorae

Tags: success


The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers


From a just fraud God turneth not away.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God, fraud


There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound


For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers


Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fortune


Old men are children once again
a dream that sways and wavers
into the hard light of day.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: death, tyranny