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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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• 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.

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  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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• For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

  Aeschylus

  Shadow, Kind, Mortals

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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

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  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.

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

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  Marriage, Fate, Men

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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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• 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.

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  Parent, Begets

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• For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

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  Blow, Literature

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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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• Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

  Aeschylus

  Wisdom, Prosperity, Enough

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• I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Speak, Forget

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• They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

  Aeschylus

  Vanity, Air

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

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• But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Men, Blood

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• It is always in season for old men to learn.

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  Education, Learning, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

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• The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Burning, Spirit

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• Success is man's god.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Men

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

  Aeschylus

  Men, World, This World

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• Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

  Aeschylus

  Age, Stronger, Youth

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.342

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• Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Mother, Safety

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• For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

  Aeschylus

  Giving, Grace

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• The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

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  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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