Aeschylus Quotes - Page 3

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• God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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  Men, Mind, Decency

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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  Resolve, Seems

  Aeschylus (1988). “Suppliant maidens”

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• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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  Death, Pain, Dying

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

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• Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

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  Justice, Suffering, Coping

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

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• Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

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  Quality, Female, Deceit

  Aeschylus (1860). “Aeschylus”, p.234

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• The words of truth are simple.

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  Simple, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Menander (of Athens.), Aristophanes (1938). “The Complete Greek Drama: All the Extant Tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a Variety of Translations”

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• You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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  Lessons, Late, Discreet

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• When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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  Men, Helping, Destruction

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• When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

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  Sleep, Eye, Soul

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

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  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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  Past, Accomplishment, Mercy

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• Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

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  Intelligent, Decision, Brain

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• The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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  Wise, Men, Knowing

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• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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  Feet, Giving, Advice

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

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  Mind, Standing Alone, Obstinacy

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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  Evil, Ignorant, Literature

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

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• There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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  Pain, Rowing, Advantage

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• Base men who prosper are unenviable.

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  Men, Justice

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• Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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• The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage

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• Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

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  Reality, Men, Justice

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• Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

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  Compulsion, Destroyed

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

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

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  Winning, Wish, Athena

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

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  Happiness, Prayer, Mind

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• The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

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  God, Winning, Sky

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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