AESCHYLUS QUOTES VII

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

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

Tags: morality


Necessity is stronger far than art.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: necessity


Trouble, with its memories of pain, drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, so men against their will learn to practice moderation.

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Agamemnon

Tags: sleep


The polished brass is mirror of the form, wine of the soul.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: wine


But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: death


Dreams are free.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: dreams


O bountiful Night, housekeeper of heaven's embroidery.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: night


When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

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fragment

Tags: strength, justice


Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

AESCHYLUS

Salaminiai


It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: misfortune


No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

AESCHYLUS

The Oresteia

Tags: Heaven, anger


Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: fortune


A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave
Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: tyranny, friends


God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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fragment, Niobe

Tags: sin


Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

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fragment, Phineus

Tags: hunger


Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

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fragment, Bacchae

Tags: sin


Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: mistakes, wisdom


A great ox stands on my tongue.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon


The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Danaides