AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi

Tags: wealth


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


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


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


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


Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare!
For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower
Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes


Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Pourers

Tags: destiny, prayer


Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: night


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


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

Tags: women, sex


No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

AESCHYLUS

Libation Bearers


Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Chained

Tags: ocean


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

Tags: death


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

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

Tags: war


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work