Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; And from your polity do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just? Hold fast such upright fear of the law’s sanctity,
Source: Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC) source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 526–530 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
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“God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1032–1033
Fragment 250 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν Ὕβρις
μὲν παλαιὰ νεά-
ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν
Ὕβριν τότ' ἢ τόθ', ὅτε τὸ κύριον μόλῃ.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 763–766 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 286 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 598–602 (tr. Christopher Collard)
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1327–1329 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.”
Source: The Suppliants, line 453; comparable to "where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise", Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, stanza 10
“Memory, Muse-mother, doer of all things.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 461 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)
“For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?”
Fragment 209 https://archive.org/stream/aeschyluswitheng02aescuoft#page/496/mode/2up
“Sole cure of wrong is silence.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 548 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“The default
Of one vote only bringeth ruin deep,
One, cast aright, may stablish house and home.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 750–751 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Fragment 63 (trans. by E. H. Plumptre), reported in Theoi http://www.theoi.com/Text/AeschylusFragments2.html
“I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 757
“What's determined
Bear, as I can, I must, knowing the might
Of strong Necessity is unconquerable.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 103–105 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 226–229 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 622 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“And she who, like a swan,
Has chanted out her last and dying song,
Lies, loved by him.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1444–1446 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)