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Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) QUOTES

Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) QUOTES

1 " Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

2 " In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

3 " For Ares, lord of strife,
Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold,
War’s money-changer, giving dust for gold,
Sends back, to hearts that held them dear,
Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear,
Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul;
Yea, fills the light urn full
With what survived the flame—
Death’s dusty measure of a hero’s frame! "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

4 " And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
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― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

5 " Rumours voiced by women come to nothing. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

6 " There is no avoidance in delay. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

7 " A curse burns bright on crime. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

8 " Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

9 " Every medicine is vain. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

10 " Shameless self-willed infatuation
Emboldens men to dare damnation,
And starts the wheels of doom which roll
Relentless to their piteous goal. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

11 " For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really eats their hearts, or they can pretend to join another person’s happiness forcing their faces into smiling masks. But a good man discerns true character— he’s not fooled by eyes feigning loyalty, favouring him with watered-down respect. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

12 " May good prevail, and justify my deed. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

13 " I know the stars by heart,
the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have--
our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when the fall . . . "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

14 " My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

15 " They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

16 " She looked just like a painting dying to speak. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

17 " Bastions of wealth
are no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

18 " By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

19 " For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

20 " At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child. "

― Aeschylus , Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)