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• Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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  Fall, Pride, Riches

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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  Learning, Science, Youth

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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  Friendship, Trust, No Friends

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

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  Speak, Stranger, Ill

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• "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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  Fathers Day, Mother, Law

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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  Soul, Flow, Calm

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.167

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• Know not to revere human things too much.

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  Too Much, Limits, Human Nature

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• If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

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  Envied, Ifs

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• Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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  Men, Self, Doe

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

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  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

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  Wise, Believe, Pride

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

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  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

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  Sweet, Grief, Suffering

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.367, Delphi Classics

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• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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  Birthday, Age, Taught

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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• Do not kick against the pricks.

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  Kicks

  Aeschylus (1827). “The tragedies of Aeschylus, tr. into Engl. prose”, p.171

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• Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.

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  Art, Needs, Remember

  Supplices, l.202 (translated by H Weir Smyth).

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• You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

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  Book, Men, Justice

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.

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  Sorrow, Length, Ends

  Prometheus Vinctus, l.750-1.

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• The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

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  Hands, Zeus, Hephaestus

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• Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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  Literature, Mourn

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• Even the old should learn.

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  Should

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• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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  Giving, Political, Advice

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• There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

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  Health, Disease, Limits

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• If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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  Teacher, Acceptance, Moderation

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• Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

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  Adversity, Light, Track

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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