Aeschylus Quotes

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

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

Ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιεί-
ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλος
καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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

إن طرق الفكر الإلهي تمضي الى الهدف خلال التواءات وظلال كثيفة لا تستطيع أية نظرة أن تنفذ فيها

Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα·
πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανον
κἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτων
κρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.

Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Ὀλβίσαι δὲ χρὴ
βίον τελευτήσαντ' ἐν εὐεστοῖ φίλῃ.

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Ὁ δ' ἀφθόνητός γ' οὐκ ἐπίζηλος πέλει.

Τῷ δυσπραγοῦντί τ' ἐπιστενάχειν
πᾶς τις ἑτοῖμος· δῆγμα δὲ λύπης
οὐδὲν ἐφ' ἧπαρ προσικνεῖται·
καὶ ξυγχαίρουσιν ὁμοιοπρεπεῖς,
ἀγέλαστα πρόσωπα βιαζόμενοι.