Эсхил знаменитые цитаты
„Опьянение показывает душу человека, как зеркало отражает его тело.“
Вариант: Опьянение показывает сердце глупого человека, как зеркало отражает его лживое тело.
Эсхил цитаты
„Незавидна участь того, кому никто не нравится“
Вариант: Незавидна участь того, кому никто не нравится
Эсхил: Цитаты на английском языке
Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; And from your polity do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just? Hold fast such upright fear of the law’s sanctity,
Источник: Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC) source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 526–530 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Aeschylus / Quotes / Oresteia (458 BC) / Eumenides
“God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.”
Источник: Prometheus Bound, lines 1032–1033
Fragment 250 (trans. by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Φιλεῖ δὲ τίκτειν Ὕβρις
μὲν παλαιὰ νεά-
ζουσαν ἐν κακοῖς βροτῶν
Ὕβριν τότ' ἢ τόθ', ὅτε τὸ κύριον μόλῃ.
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 763–766 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 832–833
“Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 286 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.”
Источник: The Suppliants, line 453; comparable to "where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise", Thomas Gray, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, stanza 10
“Memory, Muse-mother, doer of all things.”
Источник: Prometheus Bound, line 461 (tr. Henry David Thoreau)
“For where might and justice are yoke-fellows—
What pair is stronger than this?”
Fragment 209 https://archive.org/stream/aeschyluswitheng02aescuoft#page/496/mode/2up
“Sole cure of wrong is silence.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 548 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“The default
Of one vote only bringeth ruin deep,
One, cast aright, may stablish house and home.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 750–751 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”
Источник: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Fragment 63 (trans. by E. H. Plumptre), reported in Theoi http://www.theoi.com/Text/AeschylusFragments2.html
“I hold my own mind and think apart from other men.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 757
“What's determined
Bear, as I can, I must, knowing the might
Of strong Necessity is unconquerable.”
Источник: Prometheus Bound, lines 103–105 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
Источник: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 226–229 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”
Источник: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 622 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth)
“And she who, like a swan,
Has chanted out her last and dying song,
Lies, loved by him.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1444–1446 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“A great ox stands on my tongue.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 36–37
“He or silence keeps or speaks in season.”
Источник: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 619 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.”
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Also attributed to Sophocles in "Oedipus The King".
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 928–929. Variant translations:
Источник: Prometheus Bound, lines 1009–1010 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong,
Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”
Источник: Prometheus Bound, lines 1012–1013 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“Prolific truly is the impious deed;
Like to the evil stock, the evil seed.”
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 758–760 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“Old men are always young enough to learn.”
Variant translation: Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Источник: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 584 ( line 583 of Richmond Lattimore's translation http://books.google.com/books?id=3duN7nP3OQYC&q=%22old+men+are+always+young+enough+to+learn%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage)
