Aeschylus Quotes, Wrath Quotes, Light Quotes

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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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

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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.

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