Aeschylus Quotes - Page 2

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• When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

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  Strength, Justice, Literature

  "Fragments". Book by Aeschylus (Fragment 298),

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• Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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  Justice, Suffering, Coping

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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• Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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  Long, Silence, Harm

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

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  Believe, Men, Keeping Promises

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

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• Simple is the speech of truth.

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  Simple, Speech

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• God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

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  Love, God, Helping Others

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

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  Truth, Pain, Want

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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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• 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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• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• The wisest of the wise may err.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Literature

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• Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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  Past, Accomplishment, Mercy

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• The reward of pain is experience.

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  Pain, Rewards

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• The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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  Fate, Justice, Doe

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• Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

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  Courage, Fear, Want

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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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• It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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  Evil, Ignorant, Literature

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

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

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  Literature, Easier, Born

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• He hears but half who hears one party only.

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  Party, Prejudice, Half

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus, line 428. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 631, 1922.

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• Wrong must not win by technicalities.

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  Winning, Technicalities

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

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• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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  Friendship, Jealousy, Character

  "The Oresteian Trilogy". Play by Aeschylus, 458 BC.

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• God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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  Men, Mind, Decency

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

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