Aeschylus Quotes

Καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια,
γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος.

Φύλακα πολυπόνων
βροτῶν.

Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.

Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,
πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.

Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.

Ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν
ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος.

θῖνες νεκρῶν δὲ καὶ τριτοσπόρῳ γονῇ
ἄφωνα σημανοῦσιν ὄμμασιν βροτῶν
ὡς οὐχ ὑπέρφευ θνητὸν ὄντα χρὴ φρονεῖν.

But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.

Ἀλλ᾽, ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.

Φίλοι, κακῶν μὲν ὅστις ἔμπειρος κυρεῖ,
ἐπίσταται βροτοῖσιν ὡς, ὅταν κλύδων
κακῶν ἐπέλθῃ, πάντα δειμαίνειν φίλον,
ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ δαίμων εὐροῇ, πεποιθέναι
τὸν αὐτὸν αἰὲν ἄνεμον οὐριεῖν τύχας.

Ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές.

Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.

Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.

Ἔστι γὰρ πλοῦτός γ᾽ ἀμεμφής, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῷ φόβος·
ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.