Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
Quotes from Oresteia — Aeschylus
525 BC–456 BC Greece
46 quotes
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Oresteia (-458)
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Oresteia (-458)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Oresteia (-458)
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Oresteia (-458)
But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.
Oresteia (-458)
Oresteia (-458)
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Oresteia (-458)
Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
Oresteia (-458)
Repute of justice, not just act, thou wishest.
Oresteia (-458)
Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.
Oresteia (-458)
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Oresteia (-458)
Chorus of Furies: Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar.
Oresteia (-458)
I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.
Oresteia (-458)
What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?
Oresteia (-458)
I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.
Oresteia (-458)
I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again. (tr. Gilbert Murray)
Oresteia (-458)
While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.
Oresteia (-458)
She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.
Oresteia (-458)
Do not kick against the pricks.
Oresteia (-458)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aeschylus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.