Aeschylus Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Rain, Animal

• By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  Aeschylus

  Drinking, Water, Environmental

• The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

  Aeschylus

  Spring, Night, Law

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.154, Oxford University Press

• Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

  Aeschylus

  Wine, Water, House

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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