Aeschylus quotes - page 7

Justice turns the scale For those to whom through pain At last comes wisdom's gain. (Aeschylus)
None of their own will choose a bond-slave's life. View quote
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The future you shall know when it has come before then, forget it. View quote
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Fear is stronger than arms. View quote
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Call no man happy till he is dead. View quote
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The force of necessity is irresistible. View quote
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Words are healers of the sick tempered. View quote
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. View quote
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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been. View quote
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... against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win. View quote
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Honor modesty more than your life. (Aeschylus)
Sweet is a grief well ended. View quote
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I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise. View quote
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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite. View quote
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Success is man's god. View quote
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By suffering comes wisdom. View quote
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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. View quote
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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments. View quote
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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. View quote
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. View quote
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High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this. (Aeschylus)
... it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors. View quote
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new. View quote
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Ask the gods nothing excessive. View quote
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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. View quote
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Aeschylus

Aeschylus - Image
Photo: Tilemachos Efthimiadis, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Greek Poet
Born: 525 BC
Died: 456 BC
Quotes count: 233
Wikipedia: Aeschylus

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