Aeschylus Quotes, Deceit Quotes, Causes Quotes

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

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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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For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

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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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Success is man's god.

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The reward of suffering is experience

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ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

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

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Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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