AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

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The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

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

AESCHYLUS

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Tags: night, sin


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


God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

AESCHYLUS

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Tags: God


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


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: hope


It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: death, pain


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

Tags: death


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

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Tags: words


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: wealth, destiny


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


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

Tags: murder


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


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


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

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