AESCHYLUS QUOTES V
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
Ye waves
That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe
Your crisped smiles.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Chained
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
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
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
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Ixion
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
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound