Aeschylus quotes - page 6

Glances whose gentle fire Bestowed both wound and balm. (Aeschylus)

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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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.

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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For where might and justice are yoke-fellows-
What pair is stronger than this? (Aeschylus)

But when a man speeds toward his own ruin, a god gives him help.

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Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.

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For none is free but Zeus.

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Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.

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May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!

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

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Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation.

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Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state: So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove. Prometheus: Not thus - it is not in the Fates that thus These things should end; crush'd with a thousand wrongs, A thousand woes, I shall escape these chains. Necessity is stronger far than art. Chorus: Who then is ruler of necessity? Prometheus: The triple Fates and unforgetting Furies. Chorus: Must Jove then yield to their superior power? Prometheus: He no way shall escape his destined fate. Chorus: What, but eternal empire, is his fate? Prometheus: Thou mayst not know this now: forbear to inquire. Chorus: Is it of moment what thou keep'st thus close? Prometheus: No more of this discourse; it is not time Now to disclose that which requires the seal Of strictest secresy; by guarding which I shall escape the misery of these chains.

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Children are memory's voices, and preserve The dead from wholly dying.

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Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings. (Aeschylus)

God on high Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour Has made not pitiless.

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But as he willed 'tis ordered all, And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall- Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine Poured forth too late, the wrath divine Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine.

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My friends, anyone with real experience of trouble knows how, when a surge of it comes upon them, they are apt to fear everything; but when fortune's tide is good, they trust that the same breeze will blow favourably for ever.

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Let not a woman's voice Be loud in council! for the things without, A man must care; let women keep within- Even then is mischief all too probable!

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Aeschylus

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Occupation: Greek Poet
Born: 525 BC
Died: 456 BC
Quotes count: 233
Wikipedia: Aeschylus

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