Fragment from Aeschylus

    The man who rightly acts without coercion

    Will not be grieved, can never wholly sink in wretchedness;

    While the lawless criminal is forcibly dragged under

    In the current of time when from the shattered mast

    The elements rip down his sails.

    He shouts, there is no ear to hear him

    Struggling, hopeless, at the maelstrom's center.

    Gods laugh at the transgressor now,

    Watching him, his pride now wrecked,

    Caught in desperation's shackles.

    He flees the rocks in vain;

    His fortunes smash on retribution's reef

    And, unmourned, he is engulfed.