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“Well if this be order
give me a wheelbarruh of chaos
and a pop bottle full of shook up rattlesnakes”
― Bob Henry Baber

“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
― Aeschylus

“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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

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

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

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

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

“There is no avoidance in delay.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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

“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”
― Aeschylus

“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound