The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. — Aeschylus Copy Share
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. — Aeschylus Copy Share
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house. — Aeschylus Copy Share
Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by… — Aeschylus Copy Share
“If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things… — Aeschylus Copy Share
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of… — Aeschylus Copy Share
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