Quotations From AESCHYLUS

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• 111.

  It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 278.
• 112.

  I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 276.
  
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• 113.

  But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer—happiness.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 535.
  
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• 114.

  For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 217.
  
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• 115.

  But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 647.