Aeschylus Quotes

Oh stop whining .
And why get angry at Helen?
As if she singlehandedly destroyed those
multitudes of men
As if she all alone
made this wound in us.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

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

და მათივ ხორცით ილუკმება მშობელი მამა

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

I take my cue from deeds, not words.

Σάφ' εἰδότας χρὴ τῶνδε θυμοῦσθαι πέρι·
τὸ γὰρ τοπάζειν τοῦ σάφ' εἰδέναι δίχα.

A curse burns bright on crime.

Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

إن آلاف المصائب تخرج من البحر، وآلاف المصائب تخرج من الأرض، لتصيب أولئك الذين تستطيل حياتهم في الزمان

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

I ask the gods some respite from the weariness
of this watch time measured by years I lie awake
elbowed upon the Atreidae's roof dogwise to mark
the grand professionals of all the stars of night
burdened with winter and again with heat for men,
dynasties in their shining blazoned on the air,
these stairs, upon their wane and when the rest arise

Δύσφρων γὰρ ἰὸς καρδίαν προσήμενος
ἄχθος διπλοίζει τῷ πεπαμένῳ νόσον·
τοῖς τ' αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ πήμασιν βαρύνεται
καὶ τὸν θυραῖον ὄλβον εἰσορῶν στένει.

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