Aeschylus Quotes

Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,
spitting great gobs of blood all over me,
drenching me in showers of his dark blood.
And I rejoiced—just as the fecund earth
rejoices when the heavens send spring rains

For Ares, lord of strife,
Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold,
War’s money-changer, giving dust for gold,
Sends back, to hearts that held them dear,
Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear,
Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul;
Yea, fills the light urn full
With what survived the flame — Death’s dusty measure of a hero’s frame!

CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.

თუმცა მსახურებს ეჩვენება მწუხრე სახით,
მაინც თვალები დედოფლისა ამხელს სიხარულს.

Εἴπερ κακὸν φέροι τις, αἰσχύνης ἄτερ
ἔστω· μόνον γὰρ κέρδος ἐν τεθνηκόσι·
κακῶν δὲ κᾀσχρῶν οὔτιν᾽ εὐκλείαν ἐρεῖς.

The will of Zeus,
The hand of his Hephæstus.

...that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist, but ripeness comes as well. From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench there comes a violent love.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Ὄξος τ' ἄλειφά τ' ἐγχέας ταὐτῷ κύτει
διχοστατοῦντ' ἂν οὐ φίλως † προσεννέποις.

The default
Of one vote only bringeth ruin deep,
One, cast aright, may stablish house and home.

Μέλει γὰρ ἀνδρί, μὴ γυνὴ βουλευέτω,
τἄξωθεν· ἔνδον δ᾽ οὖσα μὴ βλάβην τίθει.

Φύλακα πολυπόνων
βροτῶν.

Todo es arduo, menos ser rey de dioses. Que, excepto Zeus, nadie en el mundo es libre.