AESCHYLUS QUOTES V
Greek dramatist (525 B.C.-456 B.C.)
Not for laggards doth a contest wait.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Glaukos Potnieus
Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Kabeiroi
Some are lapped in night, where all things are undone.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
For a single path leads to the house of Hades.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Telephos
And all the country echoeth with the moan,
And poureth many a tear
For that magnific power
Of ancient days far-seen that thou didst share
With those of one blood sprung;
And all the mortal men who hold the plain
Of holy Asia as their land of sojourn,
They grieve in sympathy
For thy woes lamentable.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
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, Philoctetes
But thou, like newly-yoked colt,
Champing the bit, dost fight against the rein
Fiercely; yet futile the device wherein
Madly thou trustest; for mere stubbornness
Avails the foolish-hearted less than nought.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
Thou needs must spit it out and make clean thy mouth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Toxotides
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
AESCHYLUS
The Libation Bearers
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.
AESCHYLUS
fragment, Ixion
Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.
AESCHYLUS
Agamemnon
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliant Women
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound