Aischylos citáty

strana 3

„I pro starce je užitečné učit se moudrosti.“

„Lidé nenávidí smrt neprávem, je to nejjistější obrana proti mnoha nemocem a svízelům.“

„Bože, dej mi vytrvalost, abych překonal věci, které změnit nemohu, dej mi sílu, abych změnil věci, které změnit mohu, dej mi moudrost, abych tyto věci dokázal rozlišit.“

„Srdce dělá zázraky, ale rozum na ně nevěří.“

„První obětí každé války je pravda.“

„Kdo pozná potřebné věci, i když ne mnohé, je moudrý.“

„Moudrý je, kdo zná potřebné věci, nikoli mnoho věcí.“

„Láska nás činí jen šťastnými, místo aby činila náš život radostný.“

„Kdo miluje, má stále plné ruce práce.“

„Je v povaze smrtelníků kopnout do člověka, když leží.“

„Úspěšný člověk je v očích lidí oheň.“

„Bronz je zrcadlem formy, víno zrcadlem srdce.“

„Bez nehod, útrap a škod nikdo z nás neprojde životem.“

„I stařec je k poučení vždy dost mlád.“

„Výčitky jsou srdci důtkami.“

„Musíme se protrpět k pravdě.“

„Je to vždy vhodná doba pro starého muže - učit se.“

„Strast přijde – buď dnes nebo zítra.“

„Čestná smrt je lepší než nečestný život.“

„Do leckterého domu vrací se místo hrdinů chladná urna a popel.“

„Rozvážnost jest největší dar božstva.“

„Nadměrná sláva je osudná: do strmých štítů nejspíše Diovy blesky bijí.“

„Co přijít má, to stačí znát, až to tu je; dřív nech to být, nechtěj předem naříkat!“

„Poučit se je stařec vždy dost mlád.“

“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.”