Quote

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Wells
Resisting
Well
Necessity
Must
Bear
Bears
Destiny
Strength
Knowing
Best
Resignation

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.
Aeschylus
Image
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
Aeschylus
Image
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.
Aeschylus
Image
Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.
Aeschylus
Image
Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
Aeschylus
Image
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus
Image
Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
Aeschylus
Image
Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
Aeschylus
Image
This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
Aeschylus
Image
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
Aeschylus
Image
You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.
Aeschylus
Image
When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.
Aeschylus
Image
Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.
Aeschylus
Image
The future you shall know when it has come before then, forget it.
Aeschylus
Image
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
Aeschylus
Image
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.
Aeschylus
Image
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
Aeschylus
Image
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
Aeschylus
Image
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
Aeschylus
Image
For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus