Aeschylus Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no avoidance in delay.

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  Delay, Resolve, Avoidance

  Aeschylus (2016). “The House of Atreus”, p.103, Aeschylus

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• To many mortals silence great gain brings.

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  Silence, Gains, Mortals

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

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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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• 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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• Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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  Pain, Ends, Extremity

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343

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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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• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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  Fashion, Eagles, Hands

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

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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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• Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

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  Women, Rumor, Dying

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• The words of truth are simple.

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  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”

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

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  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

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  God, Winning, Sky

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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  Literature, Fortune, Rejoice

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

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  Happiness, Prayer, Mind

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• Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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  Literature, Mourn

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• ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

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  Winning, Wish, Athena

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

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• And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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  Wine, Fate, Tears

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.86, Penguin

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• The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

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  Justice, Dies, Customs

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.189, Penguin

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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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  Men, Shadow, Wipe

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

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  Love, Spiritual, Men

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• The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

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  Strength, Men, Knows

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.53, University of Chicago Press

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• For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

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  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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  Resolve, Seems

  Aeschylus (1988). “Suppliant maidens”

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

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  New Year, Feelings, Literature

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

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• There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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  People, Envy, Achievement

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