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• No oath too binding for a lover. -- Sophocles (496-406 BC) -- Phaedra, Frag. 848
• A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 383
• Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Frag. 384
• Success is man's god. -- Aeschylus (525-456 BC) -- Choephorae, 59
• When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. -- Aeschylu
• Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself
  Grant I may never prove so fond, To trust man on his oath or bond....
• When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands.
  Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again....
• Now let's all repeat the non-conformist oath.
• An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above, to plead to the indictment of our crimes, that those who 'scape this world should suffer there.
  -- Sothe...