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#1

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
― Aeschylus

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#2

“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

tags: suffering, truth

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#3

“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
― Aeschylus

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#4

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
― Aeschylus

tags: envy, humor

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#5

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: disease, friends, trust, tyranny

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#6

“There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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#7

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ”
― Aeschylus

tags: true-to-life

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#8

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: knowledge-wisdom, time

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#9

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
― Aeschylus

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#10

“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
― Aeschylus

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#11

“His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”
― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

tags: ambition, resolutions

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#12

“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
― Aeschylus

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#13

“It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath”
― Aeschylus

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#14

“The reward of suffering is experience.

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― Aeschylus

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#15

“I take my cue from deeds, not words.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

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