I consider false words to be the foulest sickness.

νόσημα γὰρ αἴσχιστον εἶναί φημι συνθέτους λόγους.

Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound

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Topic

Lies

Speaker

Prometheus

Author

Aeschylus

Source

Prometheus Bound

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Προμηθεὺς Δεσμώτης [Promethus Bound]. c. 430 BC.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. Promethus Bound. Dover Publications, 1996.

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We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth is to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Thucydides
Source
Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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If God be for us, who can be against us?

Apostle Paul

Romans 8:31

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God taking sides

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Apostle Paul
Source
Romans The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
Question
Language
Greek
Time
56 50s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 8:31).

Another quote originally in Greek

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Jesus

Matthew 6:24

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Priorities Love of money Wealth Sermon on the Mount
Speaker
Jesus
Source
Gospel of Matthew The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
60 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 6:24).