Aeschylus Quotes - Page 2

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• Call no man happy till he is dead.

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  Happiness, Death, Men

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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  Home, Heart, Fate

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.235

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• It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

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  Men, Fallen, Mankind

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Agamemnon, 884; adapted), 1922.

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• From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

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  Inspirational, May, Trunks

  Aeschylus (1901). “Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides”

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• Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

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  Intelligent, Decision, Brain

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• The reward of pain is experience.

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  Pain, Rewards

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• Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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  Power, Literature, Harsh

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• Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Mother

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• Fear is stronger than arms.

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  Fear, Stronger, Arms

  Aeschylus (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Time brings all things to pass.

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  Time, Time Management, All Things

  Aeschylus (1942). “Aeschylus I”

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• You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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  Lessons, Late, Discreet

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• My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

  Aeschylus

  Mines

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

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• Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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  Art, Crazy, Writing

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

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  Friendship, Strength, Success

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• Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

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  Speak, Stranger, Ill

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• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

  Aeschylus

  Friendship, Trust, No Friends

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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  Men, Helping, Destruction

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• In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

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  Marriage

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

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• Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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  Wall, Pain, Suffering

  Aeschylus (1961). “Prometheus Bound. The Suppliants. Seven Against Thebes. The Persians”, Penguin Classics

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• Simple is the speech of truth.

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  Simple, Speech

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• The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

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  Leadership, Sports, Future

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

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  Mind, Standing Alone, Obstinacy

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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  Men, Justice, Hypocrisy

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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