Aeschylus ✓

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[Wikidata] ancient Athenian playwright... | [Wikipedia] Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian, often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of

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• What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth? Atonement
• Know not to revere human things too much. Human
• For know that no one is free, except Zeus. Except
• Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. Bronze
• Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. Brings
• Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. Envy
• To give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. Advice
• There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from… Advantage
• Fear those who fear not God Fear
• Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering Circus
• For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. Disease
• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. Afraid
• Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. Law

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