John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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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] |