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• A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

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  Death, Home, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

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  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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• No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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  Heaven, Mouths, Temples

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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.

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  Dream, Children, Men

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

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• Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

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  Laughter, Ocean, Wave

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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  Heart, Blow, Wrath

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• It is through suffering that learning comes.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering

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• Wisdom cometh by suffering.

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  Wisdom, Suffering

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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• O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

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  Art, Pain, Physicians

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.340

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• Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

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  Joy, Tears, Stealing

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.7, Everyman's Library

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• I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

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  Time, Revenge, War

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• Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

  Aeschylus

  Agamemnon, Rumours

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• Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

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  Wrath, Parent

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.234

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• Success is man's god.

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  Success, Men

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

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  Speech, Might, Tongue

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• Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

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  Fashion, Revolution, Fit

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• They who prosper take on airs of vanity.

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  Vanity, Air

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

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• Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

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  Time, Hunting, Growing

  "Eumenides". Play by Aeschylus,

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• In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

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  House, Literature, Vote

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• The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

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  Death, War, Fields

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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• Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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  Men, Hands, Justice

  Aeschylus (2004). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, Everyman's Library

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• Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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  Doctors, Literature, Diseased

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• Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

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  War, Flower, Host

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.347, Delphi Classics

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