AESCHYLUS QUOTES III

Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)

Aeschylus quote

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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

AESCHYLUS
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The Eumenides


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Tags: justice


For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides

Tags: fate


Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: pain, suffering


The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers


Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: slavery


The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers


Time cleanses what it touches over time.

AESCHYLUS

Eumenides

Tags: time


What house
would ask for Vengeance
to perch heavy,
defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliants


Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fortune


From a just fraud God turneth not away.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God, fraud


Success is man's god.

AESCHYLUS

Choephorae

Tags: success


Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Europe

Tags: war, death


For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers

Tags: hate


Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: fools, prosperity


For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: God


No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Pourers

Tags: sin


The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Sphinx


Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: women


For, alone of gods, Death loves not gifts; no, not by sacrifice, nor by libation, canst thou aught avail with him; he hath no altar nor hath he hymn of praise; from him, alone of gods, Persuasion stands aloof.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Niobe

Tags: death