The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife.… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
