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Euripides. (480 or 485–406 B.C.) (continued)

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Try first thyself, and after call in God;
For to the worker God himself lends aid. 1

Hippolytus. Frag. 435.

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Second thoughts are ever wiser. 2

Hippolytus. Frag. 436.

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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Licymnius. Frag. 477.

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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Meleager. Frag. 523.

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A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

Meleager. Frag. 525.

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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Œdipus. Frag. 546.

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When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Temenidæ. Frag. 734.

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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Phœoenix. Frag. 809.

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Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?

Phrixus. Frag. 830.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Phrixus. Frag. 927.

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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Phrixus. Frag. 970.

Mimnermus. (fl. late 7th cent. B.C.)

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We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.

Frag. 1.

Note 1.
See Herbert, Quotation 28. [back]

Note 2.
See Henry, Quotation 4. [back]