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“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”

— Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, lines 599-600 (tr. David Grene)

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About Aeschylus

525 BC – 456 BC

Ancient Greek tragedian, author of "Prometheus Bound" and the "Oresteia".

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