Aeschylus525–456 BC- Fragment 392 (220 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Prometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Fragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Agamemnon, lines 832–833- Agamemnon, line 1364–1365
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), line 592
