QUOTES by Aeschylus
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“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
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“It can hardly be coincidence that at just that same time, in 508, the Athenians radically changed their political constitution to transfer ultimate power to the people (demos)—in other words, they inaugurated the world’s first democracy. So the first performance of the Oresteia may well mark the fiftieth birthday both of democracy and of theater.”
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“I shall select judges of manslaughter, and swear them in, establish a court into all time to come. 485 Litigants, call your witnesses, have ready your proofs as evidence under bond to keep this case secure. I will pick the finest of my citizens, and come back. They shall swear to make no judgment that is not just, and make clear where in this action the truth lies.”
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“Right’s anvil stands staunch on the ground and the smith, Destiny, hammers out the sword. Delayed in glory, pensive from 650 the murk, Vengeance brings home at last a child, to wipe out the stain of blood shed long ago.”
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“But who can recount all 595 the high daring in the will of man, and in the stubborn hearts of women the all-adventurous passions that couple with man’s overthrow.”
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“Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!”
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“But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.”
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“Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.”
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“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.”
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“We nearly always live through screens—a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that I have been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.4”
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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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“For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.”
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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.”
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“No shame, I think, in the death given this man. And did he not first of all in this house wreak death by treachery? 1525 The flower of this man’s love and mine, Iphigeneia of the many tears— he dealt with her even as he has suffered now.° So let his speech in Death’s house be not loud. With the sword he struck; with the sword he paid for his own act.”
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“But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from justice.”
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“The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.”
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“No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia”
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