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• Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

  Aeschylus

  Medicine, Community, Hatred

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• Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Ends, Extremity

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.343

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• Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Rumor, Dying

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• Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

  Aeschylus

  Wise, Believe, Pride

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• Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

  Aeschylus

  Suffering, Despair

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• Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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  Fall, Pride, Riches

  Aeschylus (1965). “The Oresteia trilogy: (Agamemnon, Choephoroe [and] Eumenides) [and] Prometheus bound”

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• God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

  Aeschylus

  Love, Spiritual, Men

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• So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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  Fashion, Eagles, Hands

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

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• Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

  Aeschylus

  Punishment, Feet, Justice

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

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• . . . it is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

  Aeschylus

  Women, Doors, Silence

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• In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

  Aeschylus

  Trust, Spring, Heart

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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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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• The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Dies, Customs

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.189, Penguin

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• Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

  Aeschylus

  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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• "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

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  Fathers Day, Mother, Law

  "The Suppliants". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm.

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  Long, Silence, Harm

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• No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

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  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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• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

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  Men, Shadow, Wipe

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• The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.

  Aeschylus

  Strength, Men, Knows

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.53, University of Chicago Press

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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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• God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

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  Deceit, Causes, Holy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Frag. Incert, II), 1922.

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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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• It is like a woman indeed
  To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
  They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
  From ground to ground; and swift indeed
  The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

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  Believe, Rumor, Facts

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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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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  Men, Talking, Mind

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.119, Oxford University Press

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• Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

  Aeschylus

  Learning, Men, Age

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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