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“Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.”

Aeschylus The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 168–169 (tr. Christopher Collard)

Fear , Light , Housing , Wealth

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

Aeschylus

This is often attributed to U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, but does not appear anywhere in his speeches. Arthur Ponsonby#Falsehood in Wartime (1928) quoted: "When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty", but the first recorded use seems to be by Philip Snowden in his introduction to Truth and the War, by E. D. Morel. London, July 1916: "'Truth,' it has been said, 'is the first casualty of war.'" Samuel Johnson#The Idler (1758–1760) expressed a similar idea: "Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
Misattributed

War , Truth

“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 250–251 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

Wisdom , Pain , Justice

“None of their own will choose a bond-slave's life.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 953 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

Life

“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”

Aeschylus The Persians

Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 253 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”

Aeschylus

Fragment 385, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1668

Men , Dreams , Hope

“Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.”

Aeschylus Eumenides

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 312–320 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)

Life , Appearance , Dead

“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, line 890 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

Marriage

“To me, no blazon on a foeman's shield
Shall e'er present a fear! such pointed threats
Are powerless to wound; his plumes and bells,
Without a spear, are snakes without a sting.”

Aeschylus

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 397–399 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)

Fear

“When we know clearly, then should we discuss:
To guess is one thing, and to know another.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1368–1369 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

“She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 406

“Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 263–265 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)

“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 345–346 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

“Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Kόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1671 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

“God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC)
Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon

God

“Glances whose gentle fire Bestowed both wound and balm;”

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC)
Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon