Aeschylus Quotes

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

Seek neither licence, where no laws compel,
Nor slavery beneath a tyrant’s rod;
Where liberty and rule are balanced well
Success will follow as the gift of God

This above all I bid you: reverence
Justice' high altar; let no sight of gain
Tempt you to spurn with godless insolence
This sanctity. Cause and effect remain;
From sin flows sorrow

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.

Φύλακα πολυπόνων
βροτῶν.

Learning comes through pain.

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

CHORUS: Courage and destiny in you Are proudly matched. CASSANDRA: The happy never hear such praise. CHORUS: Yet a brave death lends brightness to mortality.

Chiar în vârtejul relelelor dați sufletelor voastre veselia cea de toate zilele, căci pentru morți belșugul aurului nu mai are preț.

Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think 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. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough.
No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!

Since to open out
And mourn out grief, where it is possible
To draw a tear from the audience, is a work
That pays its own price well.