Aeschylus Quotes

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.