The Seven Against Thebes Quotes

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Fear is stronger than arms.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt,
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Obedience is mother to success and is wedded to safety.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“You have learned the lesson by experience.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Let not a woman’s voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!
Hear ye? or speak I to unheeding ears?”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

“Where womankind has power, no man can house,
Where womankind feeds panic, ruin rules
Alike in house and city!”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes