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"40 Aeschylus Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 524 BCE. Died: 456 BCE | Writer | Tragedian |
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
Will Mine Soft Make
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Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Pain Heart Despair Wisdom
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Pain Great Joy Grief
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

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

Block Doth Stand Fath
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.
Vision Night Descend Pain
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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.

Fate Wine Tear Rigid
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
Would Rather Ignorant Evil
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Courage Climb Last Long
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Unjustly Hate Death Against
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Thing One Wise Seem
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My will is mine ... I shall not make it soft for you.

Will Mine Make Soft
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Word Are Mind Disease
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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Old men are always young enough to learn.
Old Always Young Learn
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Just Lack Utter Destroy
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

God Mortal Cause Destroy
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Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Wealth Subtle Doom Destiny
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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.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Resolve Not Seem Best
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For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow Pay Done Suffer
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

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

Night Conceal Think Behold
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

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

Child Health Soul Dear
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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
Walk Crime Death Great
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Oath Make Believe Man
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Life Middle Neither Despot
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

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

Flesh Man Will Fire
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Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
Mother Success Wife Security
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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.

Bribe Pass Under Temple
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Love Help Who Him
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Aeschylus Quotes & Sayings