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Quotation from The Theban Plays by Sophocles

“The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven. They were not born today nor yesterday; They die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang”

Sophocles (spoken by Antigone)

The Theban Plays, Antigone, trans. F. Storr (1912)

Antigone defends burial of her brother by appealing to divine law above Creon’s edict.

Citation: "The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven. They were not born today nor yesterday; They die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang" — Sophocles, The Theban Plays, Antigone, trans. F. Storr (1912). (id the-theban-plays-q2)

Virtues: Piety, Justice

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