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Aeschylus

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

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ὤμοι, κακὸν μὲν πρῶτον ἀγγέλλειν κακά.”

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• “Ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές.”

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• “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.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ἀλλ᾽, ὅταν σπεύδῃ τις αὐτός, χὠ θεὸς συνάπτεται.”

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• “θῖνες νεκρῶν δὲ καὶ τριτοσπόρῳ γονῇ ἄφωνα σημανοῦσιν ὄμμασιν βροτῶν ὡς οὐχ ὑπέρφευ θνητὸν ὄντα χρὴ φρονεῖν.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά, πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Φύλακα πολυπόνων βροτῶν.”

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• “Καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια, γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος.”

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• “θέλω δ᾿ ἄϊδρις μᾶλλον ἢ σοφὸς κακῶν εἶναι.”

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• “τό τ᾿ αὖ τεκόντων σέβας τρίτον τόδ᾿ ἐν θεσμίοις Δίκας γέγραπται μεγιστοτίμου.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: lines 707–709; alternately reported with "Honour thy father and thy mother" in place of "Reverence for parents", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

• “Ἅπας δὲ τραχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον κρατῇ.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ἐλεύθερος γὰρ οὔτις ἐστὶ πλὴν Διός.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ποντίων τε κυμάτων ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Τὴν πεπρωμένην δὲ χρὴ αἶσαν φέρειν ὡς ῥᾷστα, γιγνώσκονθ' ὅτι τὸ τῆς ἀνάγκης ἔστ' ἀδήριτον σθένος.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι.”

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• “Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδα ἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶς πράσσοντας.”

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• “Γίγνωσκε σαυτὸν καὶ μεθάρμοσαι τρόπους νέους. νέος γὰρ καὶ τύραννος ἐν θεοῖς.”

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• “Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳ πρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς.”

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• “Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτι γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.”

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• “Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυς ἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.”

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• “Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκα θέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ὀργῆς νοσούσης εἰσὶν ἰατροὶ λόγοι”

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• “Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.”

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• “Μνήμην ἁπάντων, μουσομήτορ' ἐργάνην.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ.”

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• “Ὡς τἀποκλαῦσαι κἀποδύρασθαι τύχας ἐνταῦθ', ὅπου μέλλοι τις οἴσεσθαι δάκρυ πρὸς τῶν κλυόντων, ἀξίαν τριβὴν ἔχει.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “κρεῖσσον γὰρ εἰσάπαξ θανεῖν ἢ τὰς ἁπάσας ἡμέρας πάσχειν κακῶς.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Variant translation by John Stuart Blackie (1850): "Life and life's sorrows? Once to die is better Than thus to drag sick life.

• “Τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ' ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Σεμνόστομός γε καὶ φρονήματος πλέως ὁ μῦθός ἐστιν, ὡς θεῶν ὑπηρέτου.”

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• “Ἀλλ' ἐκδιδάσκει πάνθ' ὁ γηράσκων χρόνος.”

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• “Δακὼν δὲ στόμιον ὡς νεοζυγὴς πῶλος βιάζῃ καὶ πρὸς ἡνίας μάχῃ.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: lines 1009–1010 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

• “Αὐθαδία γὰρ τῷ φρονοῦντι μὴ καλῶς αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν οὐδενὸς μεῖζον σθένει.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: lines 1012–1013 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

• “ἄψορρον ἥξεις εἰς φάος.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: line 1021 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth, 1922)

• “Ψευδηγορεῖν γὰρ οὐκ ἐπίσταται στόμα τὸ Δῖον, ἀλλὰ πᾶν ἔπος τελεῖ.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: lines 1032–1033

• “τοιάδ᾿ ἐπ᾿ ἐμοὶ ῥιπὴ Διόθεν τεύχουσα φόβον στείχει φανερῶς. ὦ μητρὸς ἐμῆς σέβας, ὦ πάντων αἰθὴρ κοινὸν φάος εἱλίσσων, ἐσορᾷς μ᾿ ὡς ἔκδικα πάσχω;”

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  Recorded in: lines 1089–1093

• “Μέλει γὰρ ἀνδρί, μὴ γυνὴ βουλευέτω, τἄξωθεν· ἔνδον δ᾽ οὖσα μὴ βλάβην τίθει.”

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• “Πειθαρχία γάρ ἐστι τῆς εὐπραξίας μήτηρ, γυνὴ σωτῆρος.”

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• “Ἔστι· θεοῦ δ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἰσχὺς καθυπερτέρα· πολλάκι δ᾽ ἐν κακοῖσι τὸν ἀμάχανον κἀκ χαλεπᾶς δύας ὕπερθ᾽ ὀμμάτων κρημναμενᾶν νεφελᾶν ὀρθοῖ.”

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• “Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “κόσμον μὲν ἀνδρὸς οὔτιν᾽ ἂν τρέσαιμ᾽ ἐγώ, οὐδ᾽ ἑλκοποιὰ γίγνεται τὰ σήματα λόφοι δὲ κώδων τ᾽ οὐ δάκνουσ᾽ ἄνευ δορός.”

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• “Καὶ τῷδε κέρδει κέρδος ἄλλο τίκτεται.”

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• “Ἀνὴρ ἄκομπος, χεὶρ δ᾽ ὁρᾷ τὸ δράσιμον.”

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• “Oὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει”

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• “ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆς κάκιον οὐδέν”

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• “Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.”

  Aeschylus (525–456 BC) said by 456 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “φιλεῖ δὲ σιγᾶν ἢ λέγειν τὰ καίρια.”

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• “γέροντα τὸν νοῦν, σάρκα δ᾽ ἡβῶσαν φύει”

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• “Εἴπερ κακὸν φέροι τις, αἰσχύνης ἄτερ ἔστω· μόνον γὰρ κέρδος ἐν τεθνηκόσι· κακῶν δὲ κᾀσχρῶν οὔτιν᾽ εὐκλείαν ἐρεῖς.”

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