Aeschylus Quotes, Fate Quotes, Justice Quotes

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

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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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But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

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It is through suffering that learning comes.

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Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

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For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

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The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

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So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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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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Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

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