Aeschylus Quotes - Page 6

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.

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

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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

No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

It is always the season for the old to learn.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

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

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

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

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.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.