Aeschylus

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Time brings all things to pass.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

Every medicine is vain.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of deathand the stroke that hits the vein,the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,the curse no man can bear.But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,not from others but from them,their bloody strife. We sing to you,dark gods beneath the earth.Now hear, you blissful powers underground --answer the call, send help.Bless the children, give them triumph now.

A curse burns bright on crime.

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.