AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

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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
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The Seven Against Thebes


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Tags: war


God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God


It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: death, pain


Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: suffering, glory


Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


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


Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

AESCHYLUS

Libation Bearers


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

Tags: justice


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Woe, woe for the doom that shall be--as in grasp of the foeman they fare!
For a woe and a weeping it is, if the maiden inviolate flower
Is plucked by the foe in his might, not culled in the bridal bower!

AESCHYLUS

The Seven Against Thebes


I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: hope


Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: wealth, destiny


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: night, sin


The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity