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Aeschylus525–456 BC

Aeschylus on honor

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).

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