[6]
that equity is ever constant and never
changes, even as the general law, which is based on nature, whereas the written
laws often vary （this is why Antigone in Sophocles justifies herself
for having buried Polynices contrary to the law of Creon, but not contrary to
the unwritten law:
“
For this law is not of now or yesterday, but is eternal . . . this I
was not likely [to infringe through fear of the
pride] of any man）;1
”
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1 The first line is quoted 1.13.2. The second differs somewhat from Soph. Ant. 458, where the passage runs, τούτων ἐγὼ οὐκ ἔμελλον, ἀνδρὸς οὐδινὸς φρόνημα δείσασ᾽, ἐν θεοῖσι τὴν δίκην δώσειν （“I was not likely, through fear of the pride of any man, to incur the penalty for violating these statutes at the bar of heaven”）.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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