I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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Aeschylus (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) 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...

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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

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Bed is the poor man's opera.

—Italian proverb

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I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them.

—Mia Sheridan in Kyland

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Some friendships fade. People grow apart, lose touch, want different things. Dreams woven together, unravel.

—Kimberly Marcus in Exposed

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If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.

—Yiddish proverb

I am, indeed, a practical dreamer. My dreams are not airy nothings. I want to convert my dreams into realities as far as possible.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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