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Aeschylus Quotes about Justice

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Men, Sight, Justice

Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Strength, Justice, Literature

"Fragments". Book by Aeschylus (Fragment 298),

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Men, Justice, Hypocrisy

Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Justice, Suffering, Coping

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.144, Delphi Classics

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Reality, Men, Justice

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Men, Justice

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Fate, Justice, Doe

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Time, Justice, Voiceless

Fragment 253. "Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth". Volume 2, p. 513, archive.org. 1926.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Justice, Dies, Customs

Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.189, Penguin

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.

Book, Men, Justice

Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

Men, Hands, Justice

Aeschylus (2004). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, Everyman's Library

Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Punishment, Feet, Justice

Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

Justice, Looks, Afar

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

Justice, Suffering, Literature

"Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

Men, Afterlife, Justice

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