Aeschylus Quotes

But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.

May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!

აღსასრულის წინათგრძნობა გულში ფხაჭუნობს.

Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.

Do not kick against the pricks.

Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill.

Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground — answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.

"No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout — ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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

التوبيخات هي حوافز الحكيم

He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding

γέροντα τὸν νοῦν, σάρκα δ᾽ ἡβῶσαν φύει

Г е р м е с Мабуть у рабстві краще бути в скель оцих, Ніж Зевса-батька вісником довіреним?

П р о м е т е й Отак і треба зневажать зневажників

Thus he died, and all the life struggled out of him;
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter-savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds.