AESCHYLUS QUOTES V

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

Aeschylus quote

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

AESCHYLUS
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Agamemnon


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Tags: hope


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

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Kabeiroi

Tags: wealth


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


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

Tags: memory, wisdom


For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

Tags: death


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


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


The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


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


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: wealth, destiny


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: joy


Not for laggards doth a contest wait.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Glaukos Potnieus


Ask the gods nothing excessive.

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliant Women

Tags: prayer, God


God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: God


Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: words


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

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: learning


Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Ixion

Tags: death, work


And all the country echoeth with the moan,
And poureth many a tear
For that magnific power
Of ancient days far-seen that thou didst share
With those of one blood sprung;
And all the mortal men who hold the plain
Of holy Asia as their land of sojourn,
They grieve in sympathy
For thy woes lamentable.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound


God ever works with those that work with will.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


The popular voice has much potency.

AESCHYLUS

Agamemnon

Tags: popularity