Skip to content

For love unlovely, when its evil spell
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules. (tr. A. Swanwick)

— Aeschylus Oresteia (-458)

θηλυκρατὴς ἀπέρωπος ἔρως παρανικᾷ
κνωδάλων τε καὶ βροτῶν.

Original text (Ancient Greek)

Another quote →

Topics

Love

More quotes by Aeschylus

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Oresteia (-458)

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

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Seven Against Thebes (-467)

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Oresteia (-458)

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

All Aeschylus quotes →

You may also like

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Aeschylus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.