Aeschylus Quotes

Quickly, with rapid steps, too credulous,
The limit which a woman sets to trust
Advances evermore; And with swift doom of death
A rumour spread by woman perishes.

I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.

Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις.

I ask the gods some respite from the weariness
of this watch time measured by years I lie awake
elbowed upon the Atreidae's roof dogwise to mark
the grand professionals of all the stars of night
burdened with winter and again with heat for men,
dynasties in their shining blazoned on the air,
these stairs, upon their wane and when the rest arise

This above all I bid you: reverence
Justice' high altar; let no sight of gain
Tempt you to spurn with godless insolence
This sanctity. Cause and effect remain;
From sin flows sorrow

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Thou beholdest a spectacle ill-sighted to the eye. (Vulcan)

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.

Shameless self-willed infatuation
Emboldens men to dare damnation,
And starts the wheels of doom which roll
Relentless to their piteous goal.

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.

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