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But
if it seems good to you, hold in dishonor things which are
honored by the gods."

ISMENE
"I indeed do not hold them in dishonor; but to act in opposition
to the citizens I am by nature unable."

Antigone being at length brought before King Creon, he asks,--

"Did you then dare to transgress these laws?"

ANTIGONE
"For it was not Zeus who proclaimed these to me, nor Justice who
dwells with the gods below; it was not they who established these
laws among men. Nor did I think that your proclamations were so
strong, as, being a mortal, to be able to transcend the unwritten
and immovable laws of the gods. For not something now and
yesterday, but forever these live, and no one knows from what
time they appeared. I was not about to pay the penalty of
violating these to the gods, fearing the presumption of any man.
For I well knew that I should die, and why not? even if you had
not proclaimed it."
This was concerning the burial of a dead body.

The wisest conservatism is that of the Hindoos.


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