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“Praise not, O man, the life beyond control,
Nor that which bows unto a tyrant's sway.
Know that the middle way
Is dearest unto God, and they, thereon who wend,
They shall achieve the end.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

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, <br> <br class="br">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)<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Aeschylus / Quotes / Oresteia (458 BC) / Eumenides

“God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1032–1033

“O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.”

Aeschylus

Fragment 250 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But ancient Arrogance, or soon or late,
When strikes the hour ordained by Fate,
Breedeth new Arrogance, which still
Revels, wild wantoner in human ill.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

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)

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 832–833

“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 286 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

“My friends, anyone with real experience of trouble knows how, when a surge of it comes upon them, they are apt to fear everything; but when fortune's tide is good, they trust that the same breeze will blow favourably for ever.”

Aeschylus The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 598–602 (tr. Christopher Collard)

“Ah state of mortal man! in time of weal,
A line, a shadow! and if ill fate fall,
One wet sponge-sweep wipes all our trace away.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1327–1329 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

“I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.”

Aeschylus The Suppliants

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.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, line 461 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)

“For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?”

Aeschylus

Fragment 209 https://archive.org/stream/aeschyluswitheng02aescuoft#page/496/mode/2up

“Sole cure of wrong is silence.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

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.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

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.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

“So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."”

Aeschylus

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.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 757

“What's determined
Bear, as I can, I must, knowing the might
Of strong Necessity is unconquerable.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 103–105 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

“True, but the strength of god is mightier still,
And oft, in direst strait,
It lifteth from the lowest depths of ill
Him who, with cloud-veiled eyes, was desperate.”

Aeschylus

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”

Aeschylus

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.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1444–1446 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)