Aeschylus Quotes - 2
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Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
Supplices, l.202 (translated by H Weir Smyth). 
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More Aeschylus Quotes - 2
For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
Aeschylus— Persae, l.102 (translated by H Weir Smyth).
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
Aeschylus— Prometheus Vinctus, l.750-1.
It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.
Aeschylus— Septem contra Thebas, l.200-1 (translated by C M Dawson).
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
Aeschylus— Frag. 384, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
Aeschylus— line 1030
A great ox stands on my tongue.
Aeschylus— l. 36 (Agamemnon)
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus— Variant translation: Death is softer by far than tyranny.
— l. 1364
Do not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus— l. 1624 (Agamemnon)
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Aeschylus— l. 1668
Now you battle for your all.
Aeschylus— Persae, l.402-5 (translated by H Weir Smyth).
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,To come to me: of cureless ills thou artThe one physician. Pain lays not its touchUpon a corpse.
Aeschylus— Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
Aeschylus— Comparable to "where ignorance is bliss, ’T is folly to be wise", Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 10, line 453
Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
Aeschylus— line 89 (Prometheus Bound)
