Aeschylus Quotes - Page 4

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• If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

  Aeschylus

  Envied, Ifs

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• Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

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  Courage, Fear, Want

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• Know not to revere human things too much.

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  Too Much, Limits, Human Nature

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• For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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  Sweet, Grief, Suffering

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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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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• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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• Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

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  Suffering, Despair

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• Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

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  Adversity, Light, Track

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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  Birthday, Age, Taught

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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• Do not kick against the pricks.

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  Kicks

  Aeschylus (1827). “The tragedies of Aeschylus, tr. into Engl. prose”, p.171

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

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  Literature, Want, Ruins

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• Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

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  Art, Needs, Remember

  Supplices, l.202 (translated by H Weir Smyth).

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• Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

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  Sorrow, Length, Ends

  Prometheus Vinctus, l.750-1.

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• They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

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  Home, Men, Battle

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• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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  Giving, Political, Advice

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• Even the old should learn.

  Aeschylus

  Should

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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  Silence, Speech, Misery

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• Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

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  Medicine, Community, Hatred

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• To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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  Evil, Literature, Evil Thoughts

  Aeschylus (1849). “The tragedies of Æschylus”, p.122

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• No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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  Wrath, Light, Sea

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God always strives together with those who strive.

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  God, Work, Together

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

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  Lying, Winning, Unjust

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• Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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  Sick, Healer

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

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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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