“The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.”
Quote by Aeschylus
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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
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Source: Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides
“Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
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“But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.”
Source: The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.
“God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)