Aeschylus Quotes

FURIES:
Over the beast doomed to the fire
this is the chant, scatter of wits,
frenzy and fear, hurting the heart,
song of the Furies
binding brain and blighting blood
in its stringless melody.

Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαι
πολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκη
σιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think 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. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.

Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεται
ταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορον
γυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.

It is tempting
For the winner, who might have lost his life,
To take all.
And to destroy whatever cannot be taken.
Let us pray they restrain themselves.

Zeus, whose will has marked for man
The sole way where wisdom lies;
Ordered one eternal plan:
Man must suffer to be wise.
Head-winds heavy with past ill
Stray his course and cloud his heart:
Sorrow takes the blind soul's part -
Man grows wise against his will.
For powers who rule from thrones above
By ruthlessness commend their love.

You have learned the lesson by experience.

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

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.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Як боляче, як важко де розказувать,
Та гірко ж і мовчати, — так і так болить

უცხო ტალღებად ეკეცებოდა ზაფრანისფერი კაბის ტალღები,
დგა გარინდებით, ვითარცა ხატი და მკვლელთა მისთა
ისრებს სტყორცნიდა თვალებიდან, ვედრების ნიშნად.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

Γνώμης δ᾽ ἀπούσης πῆμα γίγνεται μέγα,
βαλοῦσά τ᾽ οἶκον ψῆφος ὤρθωσεν μία.