Aeschylus Quotes - Page 8

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• Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

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  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.5, Everyman's Library

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• When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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  Speech, Might, Tongue

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• No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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  Heaven, Mouths, Temples

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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

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  Men, World, This World

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• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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  Art, Pain, Physicians

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.340

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• Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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  Doctors, Literature, Diseased

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• A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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  Death, Home, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• Success is man's god.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Men

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

  Aeschylus

  Vanity, Air

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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• There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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  People, Envy, Achievement

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• Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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  Literature, Fortune, Rejoice

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

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  Speak, Stranger, Ill

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• Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

  Aeschylus

  Agamemnon, Rumours

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• Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

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  Fashion, Revolution, Fit

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• Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

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  Joy, Tears, Stealing

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.7, Everyman's Library

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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  Silence, Speech, Misery

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• Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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  Time, Hunting, Growing

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

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  War, Flower, Host

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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  Men, Blow, Glitter

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• But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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  Men, Dust, Blood

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.191

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• Necessity is stronger far than art.

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  Art, Stronger

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.25

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• By suffering comes wisdom.

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  Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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