AESCHYLUS QUOTES V
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
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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
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The Seven Against Thebes
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Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Watchful are the Gods of all
Hands with slaughter stained. The black
Furies wait, and when a man
Has grown by luck, not justice, great,
With sudden overturn of chance
They wear him to a shade, and, cast
Down to perdition, who shall save him?
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
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.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, to come to me; of cureless ills thou art the one physician. Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Philoctetes
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
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
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment