Quotations From AESCHYLUS

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• 11.

  Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 485.
  
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• 12.

  The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 217.
  
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• 13.

  We should know clearly before we discuss this matter; to guess is one thing, to know clearly another.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 1368.
• 14.

  And she, after swan-like singing her last and dying song, lies beside him, her lover.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 1444.
  
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• 15.

  What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 200.
  
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• 16.

  Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 1671.
• 17.

  And in this too profit begets profit.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 437.
• 18.

  For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Persians, l. 821.
• 19.

  Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Agamemnon, l. 177.
  
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• 20.

  In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 750.
  
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