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Aeschylus

524 BC - 456 BC

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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.

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The reward of suffering is experience

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Aeschylus Quote - To learn is to be young, however old.

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To learn is to be young, however old.

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Aeschylus Quote - The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

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Aeschylus Quote - When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Destruction God Help Himself Man Road

Aeschylus Quote - It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Aeschylus Quote - Wrong must not win by technicalities.

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Wrong must not win by technicalities.

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Aeschylus Quote - For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

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For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

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Aeschylus Quote - For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

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Aeschylus Quote - 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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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Blood Dead Earth Man Raise Suck

Aeschylus Quote - Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

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Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Accomplishment Beyond God Mercy Past Power

Aeschylus Quote - Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Book Disease Mind Writing

Aeschylus Quote - Know not to revere human things too much.

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Know not to revere human things too much.

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Aeschylus Quote - There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Aeschylus Quote - Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

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Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

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Aeschylus Quote - If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.

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

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Aeschylus Quote - Suffering brings experience.

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Suffering brings experience.

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Aeschylus Quote - I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death.

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Aeschylus Quote - Honor modesty more than your life.

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Honor modesty more than your life.

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Aeschylus Quote - You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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You shall learn, though late, the lesson of how to be discreet.

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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.

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Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.

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