Aeschylus Quotes, Force Quotes

The force of necessity is irresistible.

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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

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There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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A great ox stands on my tongue.

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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

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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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His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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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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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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But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

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Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

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

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By suffering comes wisdom.

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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

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Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

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The unenvied man is not enviable.

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