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• Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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  Men, Hands, Justice

  Aeschylus (2004). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, Everyman's Library

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• To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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  Tears, Gains, Trouble

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• Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

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  War, Giving, Witness

  Aeschylus, David Grene (1959). “Aeschylus”

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• The field of doom bears death as its harvest.

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  Death, War, Fields

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.87, Penguin

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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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  Blood, Hands, Agony

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

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  Waxing, Lessons, Teach

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.128

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• In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

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  House, Literature, Vote

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• I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

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  Dream, Men, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.137, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

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  Heart, Blow, Wrath

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

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  Air, Heaven, Earth

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: A New Translation with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.68

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• The laws of a state change with the changing times.

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  Law, States

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• A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

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  House, Guilt, Demise

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• If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

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  Men, Deliverance, Crime

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• God ever works with those who work with will.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Personal Growth

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• The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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  Strong, Rain, Animal

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• But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

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  Men, Pigs, Praying

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• On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar.

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  Justice, Looks, Afar

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• The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

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  Mother, Children, Nursing

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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  Justice, Suffering, Literature

  "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

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  Clever, Fire, Honor

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• It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.

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  News, Firsts, Ill

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• There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

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  Heart, Guardian, Ought

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

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• For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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  Death, House, Path

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.389, Delphi Classics

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• Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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  Time, Aging, All Things

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.134, University of Chicago Press

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