Aeschylus Quotes

I know the stars by heart,
the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have — our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall . . .

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue punishment is inflicted?

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

You are young and young your rule and you think that the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored.

So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."

By Hades, I wish Goodreads.com would make it mandatory to cite the literary source in quotes.

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

Every thing has been achieved except for the gods to rule; for no one is free save Jupiter.

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

Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.

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

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

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.