AESCHYLUS QUOTES III
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
AESCHYLUS
The Seven Against Thebes
Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.
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Agamemnon
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
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
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
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The Libation Pourers
Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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
Too credulous a woman's longing flies
And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
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
The Sphinx, the Watch-dog that presideth over evil days.
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fragment, Sphinx
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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fragment
Success is man's god.
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Choephorae
Time cleanses what it touches over time.
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Eumenides
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Europe
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
What house
would ask for Vengeance
to perch heavy,
defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?
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The Suppliants
To him that toileth God oweth glory, child of his toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
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.
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fragment, Niobe