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To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.
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No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
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This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
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Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
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The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.
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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
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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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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.
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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
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Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.
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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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Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
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To the sick some gleam of comfort Flows from the knowledge of their pains to come.
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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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This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.
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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.
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Born:
525 BC
Died:
456 BC
(aged 69)
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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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