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Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
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For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.
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Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
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The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.
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Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
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Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.
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Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
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For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.
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I know the nightly concourse of the stars And which of the sky's bright regents brings us storm, Which summer; when they set, and their uprisings.
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But utterly without knowledge Moiled, until I the rising of the stars Showed them, and when they set, Though much obscure. Moreever, number, the most excellent Of all inventions, I for them devised, And gave them writing that retaineth all, The serviceable mother of the Muse.
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
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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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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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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
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To the sick some gleam of comfort Flows from the knowledge of their pains to come.
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Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
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You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
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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.
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Born:
525 BC
Died:
456 BC
(aged 69)
Bio:
Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides.
Known for:
The serpent son
The Persians
Prometheus Bound
Seven Against Thebes
Eumenides
Agamemnon
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