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

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“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

tags: brutal-comforting

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“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: better, die, pain, suffer

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

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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

tags: greek-mythology

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