I consider false words to be the foulest sickness.

νόσημα γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους.

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

Buy Prometheus Bound at Amazon Buy Prometheus Bound at Amazon
Read Prometheus Bound at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Lies

Speaker

Prometheus

Author

Aeschylus

Source

Prometheus Bound

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης [Promethus Bound]. c. 430 BC.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. Promethus Bound. Dover Publications, 1996.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Aeschylus about lies: “I consider false words to be the foulest sickness.”
Download
A quote by Aeschylus about lies: “I consider false words to be the foulest sickness.”
Download
A quote by Aeschylus about lies: “I consider false words to be the foulest sickness.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 5th century BC

As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

Psalm 103:15-16

Buy the Bible (NKJV) at Amazon Buy the Bible (NKJV) at Amazon
Read this verse at Bible Hub
More information about this quote
Topic
Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life The human condition
Source
Psalms The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Hebrew
Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Psalm 103:15-16).

Another quote from Classical antiquity

One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.

Pyrrhus

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

Buy Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 at Amazon Buy Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Pyrrhic victory Victory
Speaker
Pyrrhus

Author

Plutarch
Source
Plutarch's Lives
Genre
Biography
Statement Type
Paradox Prophecies and predictions
Language
Greek
Time
279 BC 270s BC 3rd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 21, sect. 9.

Current Citation

Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 21, sect. 9.

Another quote originally in Greek

Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 2:10

Buy the Bible (KJV) at Amazon Buy the Bible (KJV) at Amazon
Read this verse at Bible Hub
More information about this quote
Topic
Faith
Source
Revelation The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
96 90s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 2:10).