AESCHYLUS QUOTES III
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
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
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
AESCHYLUS
Eumenides
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
AESCHYLUS
Eumenides
From a just fraud God turneth not away.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
To him that toileth God oweth glory, child of his toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Give heed, give heed and give your sympathy
To one who suffers; sorrow roaming wide
Impartial stops and stays awhile with me,
To tarry later seated close by thee.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Success is man's god.
AESCHYLUS
Choephorae
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Europe
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Pourers
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
The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Sphinx
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
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