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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I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

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Delay not to seize the hour!

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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

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The words of truth are simple.

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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

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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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Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

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The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

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