Quote

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.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Goes
Fury
Away
Cups
Ends
Burning
Flesh
Wine
Enchant
Neither
Shedding
Fate
Tipping
Tears
Rigid

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
Aeschylus
Image
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
Image
Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.
Aeschylus
Image
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
Aeschylus
Image
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Aeschylus
Image
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus
Image
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus
Image
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus
Image
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Aeschylus
Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
Aeschylus
Image
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.
Aeschylus
Image
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus
Image
For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
Aeschylus
Image
If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus
Image
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
Aeschylus
Image
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus
Image
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Aeschylus
Image
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
Aeschylus
Image
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
Image
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus