Aeschylus Justice Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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