Aeschylus Quotes

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Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

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I pray the gods will give me some relief
And end this weary job. One long full year
I've been lying here, on this rooftop,
The palace of the sons of Atreus,
Resting on my arms, just like a dog.
I've come to know the night sky, every star,
The powers we see glittering in the sky,
Bringing winter and summer to us all,
As the constellations rise and sink.

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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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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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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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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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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

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This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

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No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

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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.

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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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And from your city do not wholly banish fear,
For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just?

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Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend's success without a touch of envy.

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The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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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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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

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A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

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The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

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To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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