"Φίλοι, κακῶν μὲν ὅστις ἔμπειρος κυρεῖ, ἐπίσταται βροτοῖσιν ὡς, ὅταν κλύδων κακῶν ἐπέλθῃ, πάντα δειμαίνειν φίλον, ὅταν δ᾽ ὁ δαίμων εὐροῇ, πεποιθέναι τὸν αὐτὸν αἰὲν ἄνεμον οὐριεῖν τύχας."

"Ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές."

"Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά."

"Ἔστι γὰρ πλοῦτός γ᾽ ἀμεμφής, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ὀφθαλμῷ φόβος· ὄμμα γὰρ δόμων νομίζω δεσπότου παρουσίαν."

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

"Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart."

"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."

"The man who does ill, ill must suffer too."

"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."

"ὅπου γὰρ ἰσχὺς συζυγοῦσι καὶ δίκη ποία ξυνωρὶς τῆσδε καρτερωτέρα"

"Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof."

"Æschylus is above all things the poet of righteousness. "But in any wise, I say unto thee, revere thou the altar of righteousness": this is the crowning admonition of his doctrine, as its crowning prospect is the reconciliation or atonement of the principle of retribution with the principle of redemption, of the powers of the mystery of darkness with the coeternal forces of the spirit of wisdom, of the lord of inspiration and of light."

"I regard the Oresteia as probably on the whole the greatest spiritual work of man."

"The tragic style of Aeschylus is still imperfect. Now and then its constituents, epic and lyric, are not properly fused. He is often abrupt, immoderate, hard. To succeed him with a more artful tragedy was easy; in his almost superhuman greatness he is likely to remain unexcelled. . . ."

"He raised everything he touched to grandeur. The characters in his hands became heroic; the conflicts became tense and fraught with eternal issues."

"Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time."

"One of the greatest of human compositions."

"The first half of the Eumenides is equal to anything in poetry. The close is also very fine."

"My favorite poet was Aeschylus."

"Aeschylus I define to have been a truly gigantic man (I mean by this much more than the mere trivial figure of elocution usually expressed by the word gigantic), one of the largest characters ever known, and all whose movements are clumsy and huge, like those of a son of Anak. In short, his character is just that of Prometheus himself as he has described him. I know no more pleasant thing than to study Aeschylus. You fancy that you hear the old dumb rocks speaking to you of all things they had been thinking of since the world began, in their wild, savage utterances."

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees."

"Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen."

"Γνώμης δ᾽ ἀπούσης πῆμα γίγνεται μέγα, βαλοῦσά τ᾽ οἶκον ψῆφος ὤρθωσεν μία."

"ἀνδρὸς δ᾽ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ᾽ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις ἅπαξ θανόντος, οὔτις ἔστ᾽ ἀνάστασις."

"ἑκὼν δ᾽ ἀνάγκας ἄτερ δίκαιος ὢν οὐκ ἄνολβος ἔσται· πανώλεθρος δ᾽ οὔποτ᾽ ἂν γένοιτο."

"Ἐκ δ᾽ ὑγιεί- ας φρενῶν ὁ πάμφιλος καὶ πολύευκτος ὄλβος."

"Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; And from your polity do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just? Hold fast such upright fear of the law’s sanctity"

"Μήτ᾽ ἀνάρχετον βίον μήτε δεσποτούμενον αἰνέσῃς. παντὶ μέσῳ τὸ κράτος θεὸς ὤπασεν."

"Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω."

"Κλύειν δίκαιος μᾶλλον ἢ πρᾶξαι θέλεις."

"Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead."

"καὶ ζῶν με δαίσεις οὐδὲ πρὸς βωμῷ σφαγείς"

"Χρόνος καθαιρεῖ πάντα γηράσκων ὁμοῦ."

"Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαι πολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκη σιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως."

"This above all I bid you: reverence Justice' high altar; let no sight of gain Tempt you to spurn with godless insolence This sanctity. Cause and effect remain; From sin flows sorrow"

"Seek neither licence, where no laws compel, Nor slavery beneath a tyrant’s rod; Where liberty and rule are balanced well Success will follow as the gift of God"

"For fear, enforcing goodness, Must somewhere reign enthroned, And watch men’s ways, and teach them, Through self-inflicted sorrow, That sin is not condoned. What man, no longer nursing Fear at his heart – what city, Once fear is cast away, Will bow the knee to Justice As in an earlier day?"

"Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶν ἔνερθε χθονός, δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί."

"What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?"

"θηλυκρατὴς ἀπέρωτος ἔρως παρανικᾷ κνωδάλων τε καὶ βροτῶν."