Aeschylus Quotes about Children

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

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

Aeschylus

Children, Soul, Arrogance

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

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Aeschylus

Dream, Children, Men

Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.87, Penguin

The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

Aeschylus

Mother, Children, Nursing

Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.174, Oxford University Press