“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
Aeschylus The Libation Bearers
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 103
“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)
Aeschylus The Libation Bearers
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, lines 600–601 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“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
“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
“What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?”
Aeschylus The Libation Bearers
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), The Libation Bearers, line 702
