Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
AESCHYLUS
Libation Bearers
But thou, like newly-yoked colt,
Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein
Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein
Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness
Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
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
The Seven Against Thebes
Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Chained
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Toxotides
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Pourers
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Ixion
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
AESCHYLUS
Libation Bearers
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment