Top 100 Quotes About Aeschylus: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Aeschylus

#1. Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

#2. I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Tom Stoppard

#3. I can't speak for Aeschylus or Epictetus or Aristotle. But I am convinced of this: they would have hated having their wisdom confined to classrooms and textbooks. This is wisdom about how to live. And it's your property as much as anyone's. It is yours. Take it. Use it.

Eric Greitens

#4. The sense of the wonder of human life, its beauty and terror and pain, and the power in men to do and to hear, is in Aeschylus and in Shakespeare as in no other writer. Thy

Edith Hamilton

#5. There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

Anne Carson

#6. Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

G.H. Hardy

#7. Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

Umberto Eco

#8. My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.

Jill Paton Walsh

#9. Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior.

Eric Kandel

#10. No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia

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#11. We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories.

Mahmoud Darwish

#12. Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.

Augustus William Hare

#13. Aeschylus was the poet of a new era. He bridged the tremendous gulf between the poetry of the beauty of the outside world and the poetry of the beauty of the pain of the world. He

Edith Hamilton

#14. Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. Aeschylus said, 'In war, truth is the first casualty.' now we can add politics." Captain Hank Bracker

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#16. Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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#17. Truth is always the first casualty of war.

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

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#19. 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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#20. Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

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#21. From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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#22. My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

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#23. Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

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

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#25. For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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#26. The laws of a state change with the changing times.

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#27. It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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#28. The force of necessity is irresistible.

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

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#30. Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

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#31. By suffering comes wisdom.

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

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#33. I take my cue from deeds, not words.

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

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#35. I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

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#36. The reward of suffering is experience.

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

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#38. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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#39. Call no man happy till he is dead.

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#40. She looked just like a painting dying to speak.

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#41. In war the first casualty is the truth.

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#42. Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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#43. The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

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#44. Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

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#45. It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

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#46. Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

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#47. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

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#48. The unenvied man is not enviable.

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#49. They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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#50. Here he lies like something melting away. His mother's blood comes quaking howling brassing bawling blacking down his mad little veins.

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#51. For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

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#52. 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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#53. A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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#54. Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

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#55. Time in its aging course teaches all things.

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#56. 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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#57. Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

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#58. Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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#59. The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

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#60. 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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#61. Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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

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#63. Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

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#64. When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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

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#66. There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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#67. It is like a woman indeed
To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
From ground to ground; and swift indeed
The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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#68. Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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#69. Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

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#70. From a just fraud God turneth not away.

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#71. 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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#72. Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

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#73. Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

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#74. Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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#75. Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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#76. But let the good prevail.

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#77. We should know what is true before we break our rage.

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#78. Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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#79. The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.

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#80. Whosoe'er shall take the sword Shall perish by the sword.

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#81. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

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#82. Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

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#83. Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

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#84. Death is softer by far than tyranny.

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#85. What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

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#86. For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

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#87. Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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#88. In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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#89. Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

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#90. 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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#91. He who learns must suffer.

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#92. The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

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

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#95. A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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