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“They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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

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

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

“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

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

“The reward of suffering is experience.

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― Aeschylus

“You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are concerned with how cute or how pretty. Then let's really get basic and persecute ugly people!”
― Lenny Bruce