Quotations From AESCHYLUS

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• 101.

  Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 563.
  
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• 102.

  I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 433.
• 103.

  Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 147.
  
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• 104.

  The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 271.
• 105.

  Zeus is the air, Zeus the earth, Zeus all things and what transcends them all.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 295.
• 106.

  A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 151.
  
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• 107.

  To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 637.
• 108.

  It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385, trans. by M.H. Morgan.
  
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• 109.

  Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 276.
• 110.

  Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 984.
  
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