“Learn to know thy heart,
And, as the times, so let thy manners change,
For by the law of change a new God rules.”

— Aeschylus , Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 309–310 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

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Γίγνωσκε σαυτὸν καὶ μεθάρμοσαι τρόπους νέους. νέος γὰρ καὶ τύραννος ἐν θεοῖς.

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Aeschylus 119

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“Learn to know thy heart,
And, as the times, so let thy manners change,
For by the law of change a new God rules.”