Aeschylus Quotes

Look at him, look how he drips unhealth — shudder object!

God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Write what I tell you in your book of memory.

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.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.

და ახლა სიცხე.. ზღვა ჩამკვდარი და მოქანცული
თვლემდა უძრავად, ჩაძირული შუადღის ხვატში

A great ox stands on my tongue.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick
against the pricks, the more you suffer.

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

καὶ ζῶν με δαίσεις οὐδὲ πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς

Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτι
γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

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.