Aeschylus Quotes - Page 4

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• Know not to revere human things too much.

  Aeschylus

  Too Much, Limits, Human Nature

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• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

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  Suffering, Way, I've Learned

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Even the old should learn.

  Aeschylus

  Should

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• For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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  Sweet, Grief, Suffering

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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• Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

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  Evil, Sin, Young

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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  Evil, Literature, Evil Thoughts

  Aeschylus (1849). “The tragedies of Æschylus”, p.122

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• Do not kick against the pricks.

  Aeschylus

  Kicks

  Aeschylus (1827). “The tragedies of Aeschylus, tr. into Engl. prose”, p.171

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• Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

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  Strength, Fighting, Winning

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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  Birthday, Age, Taught

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

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• What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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  New Year, Feelings, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

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  Lying, Winning, Unjust

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• Words are healers of the sick tempered.

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  Sick, Healer

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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  Giving, Political, Advice

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

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  Believe, Men, Keeping Promises

  "Fragment 385". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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  Learning, Science, Youth

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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  Literature, Want, Ruins

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• If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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  Teacher, Acceptance, Moderation

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• When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Memories

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.209, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

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  Art, Needs, Remember

  Supplices, l.202 (translated by H Weir Smyth).

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• And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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  Wine, Fate, Tears

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.86, Penguin

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• Honor modesty more than your life.

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  Life, Honor, Modesty

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

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  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• God always strives together with those who strive.

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  God, Work, Together

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