When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? — Aeschylus Justice Copy Share Image
Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves. — Aeschylus Fortune 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
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. — Aeschylus Betrayal Copy Share Image
“But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife.… — Aeschylus Nature Copy Share Image
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say… — Aeschylus Men 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
“But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough. No one will lift a hand to send it from his… — Aeschylus Lust for power Copy Share Image
Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus Despair Copy Share Image
“The gods! long since they hold us in contempt, Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost! Why should we fawn and… — Aeschylus Contempt Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against… — 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
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our… — Aeschylus Grace 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
[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened… — Aeschylus Burden Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Boast Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen… — Aeschylus Amorous Copy Share Image