Aeschylus Quotes, Mother Quotes, Fall Quotes

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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Know not to revere human things too much.

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

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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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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

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The words of truth are simple.

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There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

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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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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

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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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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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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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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

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The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

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