Aeschylus Quotes, Men Quotes, Justice Quotes

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

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Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

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Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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It is always in season for old men to learn.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

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In war, truth is the first casualty.

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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

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It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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