“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong,
Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”

—  Aeschylus , Prometheus Bound

Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1012–1013 (tr. G. M. Cookson)

Original

Αὐθαδία γὰρ τῷ φρονοῦντι μὴ καλῶς αὐτὴ καθ' αὑτὴν οὐδενὸς μεῖζον σθένει.

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