Therefore, while thou hast me for schoolmaster, Thou shalt not kick against the pricks. - Aeschylus

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Therefore, while thou hast me for schoolmaster,
Thou shalt not kick against the pricks.

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About Aeschylus

Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

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Native Name: Αἰσχύλος
Alternative Names: Æschylus • Aeschylos
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أيها الملك أنت تعلم ما معنى العدل، ومن ثم تعلم أيضا أن تكون يقظا. إن قوتك ضمان لإحسانك
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides · February 7, 1984 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance
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the armies of the night, and there in the lead the ones that bring us snow or the crops of summer, bring us all we have — our great blazing kings of the sky, I know them, when they rise and when they fall . . .
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