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• Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Talking, Mind

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.119, Oxford University Press

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• For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds of hate should follow till the earth his life immure. Nor when he dies can he boast of being truly free.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Fate, Men

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.374

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• The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

  Aeschylus

  Tongue, Stranger, Slander

  Aeschylus (1821). “The tragedies of Aeschylus”, p.88

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• I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Stars

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

  Aeschylus

  Lying, Tyrants, Excellence

  "Oresteia".

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• . . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Doors, Silence

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• My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

  Aeschylus

  Cheer, Believe, Fate

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• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Sacrifice, Hymns, Offering

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

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• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

  Aeschylus

  Stupidity, Fool, Burden

  Fragment 383. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

  Aeschylus

  Punishment, Feet, Justice

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Home, Hands

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• I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering, Way, I've Learned

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.159, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

  Aeschylus

  Time, Justice, Voiceless

  Fragment 253. "Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth". Volume 2, p. 513, archive.org. 1926.

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• May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Morning, Night

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• The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Dies, Customs

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.189, Penguin

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• Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Men, Knees

  Aeschylus (1860). “Aeschylus”, p.241

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• For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Paid, Hostile

  Aeschylus, Christopher Collard (2003). “Oresteia”, p.60, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

  Aeschylus

  Power, Mood

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.94

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• Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

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  Long, Suffering, Lasts

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics

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• Time cleanses what it touches over time.

  Aeschylus

  Time

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

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• For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Fate, Men

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• No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Looks, Deeds

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.369

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• For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

  Aeschylus

  Parent, Begets

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• With our own feathers, not by others' hands,
  Are we now smitten.

  Aeschylus

  Hands, Smitten, Feathers

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.231

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