“If any one bear evil, let it be
Without disgrace, sole profit to the dead;
On base and evil deeds no glory waits.”

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 683–685 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

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ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BC

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