Aeschylus Quotes, Strong Quotes, Rain Quotes

The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite.

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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

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His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

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But let the good prevail.

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Time cleanses what it touches over time.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

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Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

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Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.

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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

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It is always the season for the old to learn.

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The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

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In war, truth is the first casualty.

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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

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