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.

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.