Aeschylus Quotes

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

Yet the insidious guile of god — what mortal man can escape it? Who with agile foot can lightly overleap and escape its toils?

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳ
πρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς.

Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.

ὀργῆς νοσούσης εἰσὶν ἰατροὶ λόγοι

The will of Zeus,
The hand of his Hephæstus.

Los hombres buscan a Dios y buscándolo lo encuentran.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Τὸν κρατοῦντα μαλθακῶς
θεὸς πρόσωθεν εὐμενῶς προσδέρκεται.

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

The show of weeping and of ruth
To the forlorn will all men pay,
But of the grief their eyes display,
Nought to the heart doth pierce its way.
And, with the joyous, they beguile
Their lips unto a feigned smile.