Skip to content

Athena Quote by Aeschylus

“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act…” quote by Aeschylus — Download Open image

“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Athena Righteous Winning Wish

More by Aeschylus

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Image

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

Image

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Image

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

Image

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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…

Image

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Image

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Image

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

Image

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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…

Image

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Image

Explore all 382 Aeschylus quotes

More Athena quotes

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Image

If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named…

Image

“Remind me again-why do you hate me so much?" I don't hate you." Could've fooled me." She folded her cap of invisibility. "Look...we're just…

Image

“This vessel requires sustenance." "You want... breakfast?" Lore guessed.”

Alexandra Bracken

Image

Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

Image

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that…

Image

What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. “Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A…

Image

Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained…

Image

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

Image

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very…

Image

Right before the game, she strolled up to me. "Hey, Seaweed Brain." "Will you stop calling me that?" She knows I hate that name,…

Image

“Bind your fate to mine.”

Alexandra Bracken

Image

Browse all 94 Athena quotes