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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

— Euripides

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The saying describes divine punishment passing from fathers to children. Wrongdoing and its consequences fall on different generations, creating a grim picture of inherited responsibility. Read as a statement about justice, it raises the troubling idea that children may suffer for acts they did not commit.

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