Frases de Esquilo

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“Es bueno, incluso para los viejos, adquirir sabiduría.”

“La verdad es la primera víctima de la guerra.”

“La desmesura al madurar grana en la espiga del error, y la cosecha que se recoge sólo consiste en lágrimas.”

“La voz de un pueblo es peligrosa cuando está cargada de ira.”

“El futuro, cuando suceda, lo oirás. De momento déjalo correr, no llores antes de hora, pues claramente llegará con los rayos de la aurora.”

“Sé cómo los hombres en el exilio se alimentan de sueños de esperanza.”

“Hombre no afortunado aquel que de nadie es envidiado.”

“Creo que a los muertos les importa poco si duermen o vuelven a alzarse.”

“Es una gran felicidad ver a nuestros hijos alrededor de nosotros; pero de esta buena fortuna nacen las mayores amarguras del hombre.”

“Nada sabe de calamidades quien no las ha tenido de enemigas.”

“No es soportable. Más vale morir. La muerte vale más que la sumisión a la tiranía.”

“Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos.”

“Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse…”

“No hay un mortal de infortunio exento… nadie pasa la vida sin llevar la parte de su carga de males. Éste será hoy; aquél, será mañana.”

“En el dolor está la escuela de la vida. Con él nos hacemos sabios.”

“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”

“To me, long disciplined in woe, are known
Divers lustrations; when to speak I know,
When to be silent.”

“Gain upon gain, and interest to boot!”

“Within one cup pour vinegar and oil,
And look! unblent, unreconciled, they war.”

“No boaster he,
But with a hand which sees the thing to do.”

“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”

“A speech well-mouthed
In th' utterance, and full-minded in the sense,
As doth befit a servant of the gods!”

“The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.”

“For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.”

“God on high
Looks graciously on him whom triumph's hour
Has made not pitiless.”

“Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.”

“If any one bear evil, let it be
Without disgrace, sole profit to the dead;
On base and evil deeds no glory waits.”

“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”

“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn,
To others, nought remember nor discern.”

“The field of Sin
Brings forth the fruits of Death.”

“Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.”

“Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.”

“But as he willed 'tis ordered all,
And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall—
Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine
Poured forth too late, the wrath divine
Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine.”

“Too true it is! our mortal state
With bliss is never satiate.”

“The jealous poison, lodged within the heart,
Tortures with twofold pang whom it infects;
By his own griefs oppressed, the envious man
Groans also to behold another's joy.”

“Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.”

“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”

“Life envy-free is life unenviable.”

“Since to open out
And mourn out grief, where it is possible
To draw a tear from the audience, is a work
That pays its own price well.”

“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”

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

“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”

“For Hades, ruler of the nether sphere,
Exactest auditor of human kind,
Graved on the tablet of his mind
Doth every trespass read.”