Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“But to speak ill of people at hand who give no cause for blame, is to assume a right far distinct from… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice. — 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
