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Aeschylus
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Success is man's god.
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When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.
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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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Art is far feebler than necessity.
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Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.
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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
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I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.
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I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
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Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
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The laws of a state change with the changing times.
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Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.
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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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From him [Death] alone of all the powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
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They who prosper take on airs of vanity.
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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
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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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