Aeschylus Quotes, War Quotes, Political Quotes

In war the first casualty is the truth.

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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

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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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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

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. . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

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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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Fear is stronger than arms.

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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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Success is man's god.

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The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

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

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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

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The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

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Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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