Aeschylus quotes
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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
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“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
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“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
-- AeschylusSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
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“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
-- AeschylusSource : "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.
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“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
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“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
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“God ever works with those who work with will.”
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“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
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“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
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“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”
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“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”
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“"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness”
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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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“A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.”
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“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
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“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
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“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
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“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
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“His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.”
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“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press
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“Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.”
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“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press
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“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
-- AeschylusSource : "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,
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“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”
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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 ....”
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“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
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“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
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“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”
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“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
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“God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.”
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“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
-- AeschylusSource : Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics
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“But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.”
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“There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.”
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“Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.”
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“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
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“Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.”
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“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”
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“The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.”
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“When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.”
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“For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.”
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“For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.”
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“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
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“Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”
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“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
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“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”
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“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”
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“So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.”
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“I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”
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“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”
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“Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.”
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“Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.”
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“Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.”
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“Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.”
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“Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.”
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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.”
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“In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. Quoted by Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., the evening of April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana. These words, lacking "own," have been used as one of the inscriptions at the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.”
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“From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”
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“Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.”
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“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
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“Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.”
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“But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.”
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“The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.”
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“The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”
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“It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.”
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“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”
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“It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.”
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“If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.”
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“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”
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“And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.”
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“For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”
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“There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.”
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