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.”

“Let not a woman's voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!”

“The walls of Athens are impregnable,
Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”

“Obedience mother is of good success,
Sure pledge of safety.”

“Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.”

“But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.”

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”

“Through want of heart fear seizes on my tongue.”

“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”

“Since it most profits that the truly wise
Should seem not wise at all.”

“Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.”

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”

“Justice turns the scale
For those to whom through pain
At last comes wisdom's gain.”

“None of their own will choose a bond-slave's life.”

“Bitter, being first to tell you bitter news.”

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”

“Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.”

“True marriage is the union that mates
Equal with equal.”

“To me, no blazon on a foeman's shield
Shall e'er present a fear! such pointed threats
Are powerless to wound; his plumes and bells,
Without a spear, are snakes without a sting.”

“When we know clearly, then should we discuss:
To guess is one thing, and to know another.”

“She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.”

“Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill.”

“If I grieve,
I do not therefore wish to multiply
The griefs of others.”

“Be boastful and be bold, like cock beside his partner.”

“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”

“God’s best gift Is a mind free from folly”

“Glances whose gentle fire Bestowed both wound and balm;”