AESCHYLUS QUOTES IV
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, to come to me; of cureless ills thou art the one physician. Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Philoctetes
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
God ever works with those that work with will.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Kabeiroi