Quotes from Aeschylus

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.

Zeus'tan baÅŸkas? özgür deÄŸildir.

The brave heart is called to school itself In slow endurance against Griefs that strike deep into the bosom

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 what to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Truth comes with pain.

Why love the god all gods detest?

Voluptuous promises, Crystalline logic, Caressing assurances Lead him, the slave Of his own destruction.

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.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right.

We call on the gods, and the gods well know what storms torment us, sailors whirled to nothing. But if we are to live and reach the haven, one small seed could grow a mighty tree -

CLYTEMNESTRA. Nay, peace, O best-belovèd! Peace! And let us work no evil more. Surely the reaping of the past is a full harvest, and not good, And wounds enough are everywhere.—Let us not stain ourselves with blood.

The sleeping brain has eyes that give us light; we can never see our destiny by day.

Shameless self-willed infatuation Emboldens men to dare damnation, And starts the wheels of doom which roll Relentless to their piteous goal.

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!

Look at him, look how he drips unhealth—shudder object!

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?

And when he had put on the yoke-strap of compulsion, his spirit's wind veering to an impious blast, impure, unholy, from that moment his mind changed to a temper of utter ruthlessness. For mortals are made reckless by the evil counsels of merciless Infatuation, beginner of disaster.

How fain I'd speak to those who know mythought, And silence keep to those who yet know nought.

I put men first in pity, then found there was none left for me.

Temos de suportar com o coração impávido a sorte que nos é imposta e admitir a impossibilidade de fazermos frente à força irresistível da fatalidade.