„Srdce robí zázraky, ale rozum na ne neverí.“
Prisudzované výroky
Aischylos citátov
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Aischylos
Dátum narodenia: 525 pred n. l.
Dátum úmrtia: 456 pred n. l.
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Aischylos bol jeden z najvýznamnejších antických dramatikov. Je považovaný za otca tragédie, ktorej vtlačil základnú formu. Uviedol na scénu druhého herca, čím zdramatizoval dej.
Citáty Aischylos
„Slabosť lásky je v tom, že ukazujeme druhým, ako nás jej strata bolí.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.“
This is usually attributed to Emiliano Zapata, but sometimes to Aeschylus, who is credited with expressing similar sentiments in Prometheus Bound: "For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life".
Misattributed
„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.“
— Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Zdroj: Prometheus Bound, lines 510–524, as translated by R. Potter (1860)
