Aeschylus Quotes

Revenge proves its own executioner.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

The stores are already empty, as they were looted immediately…This was the first stage. As soon as it ended the second stage began: the looting of apartments…At first they used to come on the pretext of “searching for arms”…As time passed, there was no longer a need for formal pretext; they simply come and take not only gold, silver, jewelry, and precious stones, but also pillows and blankets, and often linens, clothing, furs, and even furniture ...

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

Long John Silver's wife, Short, who said to John, If the shoe fits... Never got a dinner!

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'