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• The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

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  Hands, Zeus, Hephaestus

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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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  Night, Men, Thinking

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.341

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• For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

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  Giving, Grace

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• For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

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  Blow, Literature

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

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  Passion, Men, Victory

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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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  Shadow, Kind, Mortals

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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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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  Women, Burning, Spirit

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• It is always in season for old men to learn.

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  Education, Learning, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". 1922.

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• Wisdom cometh by suffering.

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  Wisdom, Suffering

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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• Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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  Literature, Mourn

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• But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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  Death, Men, Blood

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• Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

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  Success, Mother, Safety

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• Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

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  Laughter, Ocean, Wave

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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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  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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• But let the good prevail.

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  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.12, RicherResourcesPublications

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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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• God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

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  Mouths, Speak, Knows

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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  Political, Aliens, Blame

  Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”

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• There is no avoidance in delay.

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  Delay, Resolve, Avoidance

  Aeschylus (2016). “The House of Atreus”, p.103, Aeschylus

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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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• And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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  Blood, Hands, Flow

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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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• Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

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  Destiny, Long, Praying

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.270

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• It is through suffering that learning comes.

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  Suffering

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• In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

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  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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