Frases de Esquilo

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“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.”

“God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”

“O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.”

“But ancient Arrogance, or soon or late,
When strikes the hour ordained by Fate,
Breedeth new Arrogance, which still
Revels, wild wantoner in human ill.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”

“My friends, anyone with real experience of trouble knows how, when a surge of it comes upon them, they are apt to fear everything; but when fortune's tide is good, they trust that the same breeze will blow favourably for ever.”

“Ah state of mortal man! in time of weal,
A line, a shadow! and if ill fate fall,
One wet sponge-sweep wipes all our trace away.”

“I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.”

“Memory, Muse-mother, doer of all things.”

“For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?”

“Sole cure of wrong is silence.”

“The default
Of one vote only bringeth ruin deep,
One, cast aright, may stablish house and home.”

“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”

“So in the Libyan fable it is told
That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,
Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,
"With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
Are we now smitten."”

“I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.”

“What's determined
Bear, as I can, I must, knowing the might
Of strong Necessity is unconquerable.”

“True, but the strength of god is mightier still,
And oft, in direst strait,
It lifteth from the lowest depths of ill
Him who, with cloud-veiled eyes, was desperate.”

“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”

“And she who, like a swan,
Has chanted out her last and dying song,
Lies, loved by him.”

“A great ox stands on my tongue.”

“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”

“He or silence keeps or speaks in season.”

“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.”

“I pray the gods will give me some relief
And end this weary job. One long full year
I've been lying here, on this rooftop,
The palace of the sons of Atreus,
Resting on my arms, just like a dog.
I've come to know the night sky, every star,
The powers we see glittering in the sky,
Bringing winter and summer to us all,
As the constellations rise and sink.”

“Like a young horse
Who bites against the new bit in his teeth,
And tugs and struggles against the new-tried rein.”

“Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,
spitting great gobs of blood all over me,
drenching me in showers of his dark blood.
And I rejoiced—just as the fecund earth
rejoices when the heavens send spring rains”

“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong,
Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”

“Prolific truly is the impious deed;
Like to the evil stock, the evil seed.”

“Old men are always young enough to learn.”