Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Female
Masters
Wedlock
Among
Perverted
Passion
Shameless
Literature
Beasts
Men
Beast
Unions
Victory
More quotes by Aeschylus
Do not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus
Suffering brings experience.
Aeschylus
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
Aeschylus
Base men who prosper are unenviable.
Aeschylus
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
Aeschylus
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.
Aeschylus
Art is far feebler than necessity.
Aeschylus
The field of doom bears death as its harvest.
Aeschylus
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus
Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.
Aeschylus
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.
Aeschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Aeschylus
Fear is stronger than arms.
Aeschylus
Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Aeschylus
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
Aeschylus
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Aeschylus
