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

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

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

“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

“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.”
― Aeschylus

“ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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

“Bastions of wealth
are no deference for the man
who treads the grand altar of Justice
down and out of sight.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon