"Remember this, when you
Lay waste the land of Troy: Be reverent to the gods.
Nothing matters more, as Zeus the father knows.
Reverence is not subject to the deaths of men;
They live, they die, but reverence shall not perish."

                   --Herakles, speaking to leaders of the Greeks,
                         in Sophocles's Philoctetes (ll. 1439-44)

Paul Woodruff on Reverence

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