Aeschylus: Trending quotes (page 2)

“The show of weeping and of ruth
To the forlorn will all men pay,
But of the grief their eyes display,
Nought to the heart doth pierce its way.
And, with the joyous, they beguile
Their lips unto a feigned smile.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 790–794 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

Men , Smile , Way , Heart

“For none is free but Zeus.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, line 50 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)

“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

Appearance , Night

“Children are memory's voices, and preserve
The dead from wholly dying.”

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, lines 505–506 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

Children , Memory , Dead

“I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 432 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

“Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1343

“Quickly, with rapid steps, too credulous,
The limit which a woman sets to trust
Advances evermore; And with swift doom of death
A rumour spread by woman perishes.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 485–487 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

Death

“For love unlovely, when its evil spell
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.”

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, lines 600–601 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

Love , Men , Sex , Evil

“New-made kings are cruel.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, line 35 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

“Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.”

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers

Variant translation: Success is man's god.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 59

Men , God

“When a tongue at the wrong moment shoots off sharp-pointed words to rouse and hurt the spirit, speech may well soothe speech.”

Aeschylus The Suppliants

Source: The Suppliants, lines 446–447 (tr. Christopher Collard)

Hurt

“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”

Aeschylus The Suppliants

Source: The Suppliants, lines 328–329 (tr. Christopher Collard)

Flying

“To me, long disciplined in woe, are known
Divers lustrations; when to speak I know,
When to be silent.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 276–278 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”

Aeschylus

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 437 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

“Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 322–323 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

War

“No boaster he,
But with a hand which sees the thing to do.”

Aeschylus

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 554 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”

Aeschylus The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)

God , Help , Speed

“A speech well-mouthed
In th' utterance, and full-minded in the sense,
As doth befit a servant of the gods!”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 953–954 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

God , Sense

“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”

Aeschylus

Fragment 267 https://books.google.com/books?id=OxlHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA233&dq=%22The+man+who+does+ill,+ill+must+suffer+too.%22 (trans. by Plumptre)

Suffering

“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 312

Suffering