AESCHYLUS QUOTES II

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

Aeschylus quote

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: pain


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


I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides

Tags: suffering


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


Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: wisdom, learning


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


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


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

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: God


Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: slavery


Give heed, give heed and give your sympathy
To one who suffers; sorrow roaming wide
Impartial stops and stays awhile with me,
To tarry later seated close by thee.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: sympathy


Success is man's god.

AESCHYLUS

Choephorae

Tags: success


From a just fraud God turneth not away.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God, fraud


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


There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound


Time cleanses what it touches over time.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides

Tags: time


You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides


A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fools, success


The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Sphinx