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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Approximate author period: c. 491 BC · classical
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- Approximate author period: c. 491 BC · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Frag. 385.
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