AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

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


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


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

The Seven Against Thebes

Tags: war


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


Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi

Tags: wealth


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


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


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Toxotides

Tags: women, sex


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

Tags: death


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity


Chanting aloud in realms below
The dead are wroth;
Against their slayers yet their ire doth glow.

AESCHYLUS

The Libation Bearers