Frases de Esquilo

“Na guerra, a verdade é a primeira vítima.”

“A disciplina é a mãe do sucesso.”

“Deus ama aquele que se esforça para ajudar a si mesmo.”

“A sabedoria amadurece
por meio do sofrimento.”

“A sabedoria é filha da dor, e nasce com muitas lágrimas.”

“Está no caráter de muito poucos homens admirar sem inveja um amigo que prosperou.”

“Homens idosos são sempre jovens para aprender, com lucro.”

“Falseando a verdade, a maioria dos homens prefere antes parecer a ser.”

“Poucos homens tem a força de honrar o sucesso de um amigo sem invejá-lo.”

“Quando um homem tem força de vontade, os deuses dão uma ajuda.”

“Raros são os homens dotados de bastante caráter para se regozijarem com os sucessos de um amigo sem uma sombra de inveja.”

“O sucesso:
entre os mortais, este é um deus, ou melhor, mais do que um deus.”

“O momento é sempre apropriado para que os velhos aprendam.”

“As palavras são um remédio para a alma que sofre.”

“Quando a pessoa está disposta e preparada, Deus entra em ação.”

“Tem um terrível poder quem venera os deuses.”

“Os sofrimentos humanos têm facetas múltiplas: nunca se encontra outra dor do mesmo tom.”

“É bom aprender a ser sábio na escola da dor.”

“A força da necessidade é irresistível.”

“Simples são as palavras da verdade.”

“Ira é doença que os argumentos curam.”

“Toma coragem: o ápice da desventura não durará muito tempo.”

“Apenas quem terminou a sua vida sem sofrimento
pode considerar-se feliz.”

“A verdadeira sabedoria está em não parecermos sábios.”

“A esperança leva-nos à meta.”

“Morrer bem é a suprema glória.”

“Conhecerás o futuro quando ele chegar; antes disso, esquece-o.”

“Faz parte da natureza dos mortais
pisar ainda mais em quem já caiu.”

“Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds
Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state:
So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free
From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove.
Prometheus: Not thus — it is not in the Fates that thus
These things should end; crush'd with a thousand wrongs,
A thousand woes, I shall escape these chains.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Chorus: Who then is ruler of necessity?
Prometheus: The triple Fates and unforgetting Furies.
Chorus: Must Jove then yield to their superior power?
Prometheus: He no way shall escape his destined fate.
Chorus: What, but eternal empire, is his fate?
Prometheus: Thou mayst not know this now: forbear to inquire.
Chorus: Is it of moment what thou keep'st thus close?
Prometheus: No more of this discourse; it is not time
Now to disclose that which requires the seal
Of strictest secresy; by guarding which I shall escape the misery of these chains.”

“Do not kick against the pricks.”

“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”

“Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise,
has established his fixed law—
wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
so men against their will
learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods
seated on their solemn thrones—
such grace is harsh and violent.”

“On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble.”

“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”

“Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue punishment is inflicted?”

“Therefore, while thou hast me for schoolmaster,
Thou shalt not kick against the pricks.”

“The will of Zeus,
The hand of his Hephæstus.”

“The guardian of poor suffering mankind.”

“Learn to know thy heart,
And, as the times, so let thy manners change,
For by the law of change a new God rules.”

“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”

“Chorus of Furies: Living, you will be my feast, not slain at an altar”

“Thou shalt learn,
Late though it be, the lesson to be wise.”

“Repute of justice, not just act, thou wishest.”

“I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again.”

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”

“Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.”

“And corpses, piled up like sand, shall witness,
Mute, even to the century to come,
Before the eyes of men, that never, being
Mortal, ought we cast our thoughts too high.”

“The show of weeping and of ruth
To the forlorn will all men pay,
But of the grief their eyes display,
Nought to the heart doth pierce its way.
And, with the joyous, they beguile
Their lips unto a feigned smile.”

“For none is free but Zeus.”

“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”

“Children are memory's voices, and preserve
The dead from wholly dying.”

“I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.”

“Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.”

“Quickly, with rapid steps, too credulous,
The limit which a woman sets to trust
Advances evermore; And with swift doom of death
A rumour spread by woman perishes.”

“For love unlovely, when its evil spell
'Mong brutes or men the feebler sex befools,
Conjugial bands o'errules.”

“New-made kings are cruel.”

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