Quotations From AESCHYLUS

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• 21.

  And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 550.
  
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• 22.

  It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Persians, l. 252.
• 23.

  Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. The Seven Against Thebes, l. 259.
  
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• 24.

  You wish to be thought to act justly than to do so.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 430.
• 25.

  The words of truth are simple.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 162.
  
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• 26.

  There is a moment when god honors falsehood.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 273.
  
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• 27.

  Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 1012.
• 28.

  Or don't you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty?

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 328.
• 29.

  You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 1078.
• 30.

  I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

  Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Prometheus Bound, l. 1068.
  
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