Aeschylus Quotes

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead.

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

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

Furono saggi i nostri padri, facendo questa legge: che chi avesse le mani insanguinate non potesse farsi vedere né avere contatto con nessuno; e l’espiazione fosse l’esilio, non la morte. Ché, se no, ci sarebbe sempre stato uno implicato nel sangue: quello con l’ultima sozzura sulle mani.

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

Not sights! These terrors are real! The mother's curse, the hellhounds of hate, they are here!

In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain

Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos.

I take my cue from deeds, not words.

Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself:—I judge by deeds not words.

Δύσφρων γὰρ ἰὸς καρδίαν προσήμενος
ἄχθος διπλοίζει τῷ πεπαμένῳ νόσον·
τοῖς τ' αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πήμασιν βαρύνεται
καὶ τὸν θυραῖον ὄλβον εἰσορῶν στένει.

Every medicine is vain.

إن آلاف المصائب تخرج من البحر، وآلاف المصائب تخرج من الأرض، لتصيب أولئك الذين تستطيل حياتهم في الزمان

I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.

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