Aeschylus Quotes

Αὐθαδία γὰρ τῷ φρονοῦντι μὴ καλῶς
αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν οὐδενὸς μεῖζον σθένει.

Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist, but ripeness comes as well.
From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench
there comes a violent love.

and life beats on, and
we nurse our lives with tears,
to the sound of ripping linen beat our robes in sorrow,
close to the breast the beats throb
and laughter's gone and fortune throbs and throbs.

Oh stop whining .
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those
multitudes of men
As if she all alone
made this wound in us.

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...

..ბავშვთა დამკვლელის სისხლში სცურავს პირმოთხუპნული.

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

Sole cure of wrong is silence.

Children are memory's voices, and preserve
The dead from wholly dying.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

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

Excessive fear is always powerless.

We are the old, dishonoured ones,
the broken husks of men.
Even then they cast us off,
the rescue mission left us here
to prop a child's strength upon a stick.
What if the new sap rises in his chest?
He has no soldiery in him,
no more than we,
and we are the aged past ageing,
gloss of the leaf shrivelled,
three legs at a time we falter on.
Old men are children once again,
a dream that sways and wavers
into the hard light of day.