Aeschylus Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

• It is always in season for old men to learn.

  Aeschylus

  Education, Learning, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

  Aeschylus

  Envy, Literature, Admiration

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

• I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Men, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.137, BookCaps Study Guides

• Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Destiny, Waiting

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

• God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

  Aeschylus

  Love, Spiritual, Men

• In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

  Aeschylus

  House, Literature, Vote

• You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Want, Ruins

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

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Men, Keeping Promises

  "Fragment 385". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

• Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Suffering, Literature

  "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

  Aeschylus

  Evil, Ignorant, Literature

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

• What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

  Aeschylus

  New Year, Feelings, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

• Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

  Aeschylus

  Work, Men, Haste

• I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Winning, Unjust

• Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Mourn

• We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Guile

• The words of truth are simple.

  Aeschylus

  Simple, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Menander (of Athens.), Aristophanes (1938). “The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations”

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

  Aeschylus

  Drinking, Water, Environmental

• There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Literature, Be Kind

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

• What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Literature

• Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

  Aeschylus

  Doctors, Literature, Diseased

• God always strives together with those who strive.

  Aeschylus

  God, Work, Together

• Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Easier, Born

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