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Aeschylus


Playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.
Aeschylus
Success is man’s god.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.




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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
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"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.




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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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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.
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For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.
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Oh me, I have been struck a mortal blow right inside.
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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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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