Wrong must not win by technicalities.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.