Aeschylus Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

  Aeschylus

  Trust, Spring, Heart

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

• There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

• Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  Aeschylus

  Memories, Grief, Heart

• Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

  Aeschylus

  Home, Heart, Fate

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.235

• There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Guardian, Ought

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Blow, Wrath

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

  Aeschylus

  Soulmate, Passion, Heart

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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

  Aeschylus

  Heart, Wine, Mirrors

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