Aeschylus Quotes, Book Quotes, Men Quotes

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

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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There is no avoidance in delay.

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The force of necessity is irresistible.

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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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The unenvied man is not enviable.

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God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

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Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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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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The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

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Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

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