ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.
AeschylusTags: justice judgment fairness impartiality due-process
There is no avoidance in delay.
AeschylusTags: courage action resolve avoidance delay
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
AeschylusTags: greek-mythology
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
AeschylusThere is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
AeschylusCLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.
But the lust for power never dies- men cannot have enough.
No one will lift a hand to send it from his door, to give it warning, 'Power, never come again!
The gods! long since they hold us in contempt,
Scornful of gifts thus offered by the lost!
Why should we fawn and flinch away from doom?
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
Tags: brutal-comforting
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
AeschylusTags: philosophy
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