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

  Aeschylus

  Long, Suffering, Lasts

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

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• There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

  Aeschylus

  Long, Scruples, Wells

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.127, Penguin

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• When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

  Aeschylus

  Marriage, Wedding, Memories

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.209, University of Chicago Press

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• It is like a woman indeed
  To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
  They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
  From ground to ground; and swift indeed
  The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Rumor, Facts

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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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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• 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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• 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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• God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

  Aeschylus

  Deceit, Causes, Holy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Frag. Incert, II), 1922.

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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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• Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Pain, Dying

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.232

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Suffering

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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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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• . . . 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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• Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.5, Everyman's Library

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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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• What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Literature

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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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• It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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  Feet, Light, Suffering

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• Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

  Aeschylus

  Night, Men, Thinking

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.341

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

  Aeschylus

  Children, Soul, Arrogance

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

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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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