Top 100 Aeschylus Quotes
#1. PROMETHEUS: '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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#2. Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
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#3. The laws of a state change with the changing times.
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#4. It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
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#5. I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
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#7. Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
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#8. I take my cue from deeds, not words.
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#9. The reward of suffering is experience.
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#10. For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
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#11. She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
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#12. Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.
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#13. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
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#14. Time in its aging course teaches all things.
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#15. If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
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#16. Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
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#17. The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
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#18. Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
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#19. Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
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#20. Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
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#21. The gods! long since they hold us in contempt,
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?
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#22. The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.
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#23. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
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#24. In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
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#25. 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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#26. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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#27. I know how men in exile feed on dreams
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#28. In war, truth is the first casualty.
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#30. Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
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#31. To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
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#32. What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
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#33. There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
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#34. Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
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#35. But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
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#36. Pain both ways and what is worse?
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#37. God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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#38. Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
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#39. For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
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#40. Necessity is stronger far than art.
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#41. It is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.
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#42. When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
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#43. Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.
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#44. Honor modesty more than your life.
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#45. For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
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#46. We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
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#47. Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.
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#48. At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.
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#49. For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
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#50. The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.
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#51. The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
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#52. For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
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#53. Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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#54. Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.
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#55. The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
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#56. If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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#57. For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
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#58. Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
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#60. Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
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#61. Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.
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#62. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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#63. In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain
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#64. To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
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#65. The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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#66. The moving light, rejoicing in its strength,
Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way,
In golden glory, like some strange new sun ...
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#67. For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
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#68. When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them.
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#69. It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath
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#70. Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all.
-Cassandra
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#71. Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
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#72. Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
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#73. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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#74. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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#75. I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.
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#76. Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
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#77. Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
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#79. But there is a cure in the house,
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.
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#80. The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.
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#81. It is always in season for old men to learn.
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#82. God ever works with those who work with will.
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#83. The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
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#84. Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
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#85. This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
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#86. Time as he grows old teaches all things.
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#87. Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.
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#88. The words of truth are simple.
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#89. He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
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#90. It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
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#91. I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
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#92. It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
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#93. When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
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#94. Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.
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#95. Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
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#96. God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
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#97. And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
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#98. Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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#99. Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
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#100. Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
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