Aeschylus Quotes

ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν
οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται·
πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο.

რაჟამს ინათებს, აღმოსავლით დაჰბერავს ქარი,
გაეკიდება ტალღა ტალღას მზისკენ მორბედი..

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.

ღმერთებსა ვვედრი, ტანჯვას ჩემსა დასდონ სამანი

But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough.
No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!

For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?

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?

Time shell be the limit of my suffering.

βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις, τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.

CLYTEMNESTRA. Nay, peace, O best-belovèd! Peace! And let us work no evil more. Surely the reaping of the past is a full harvest, and not good, And wounds enough are everywhere. — Let us not stain ourselves with blood.

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

Suffering brings experience.

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

Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,
πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.

He who is not enviable is not admirable.