| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | Euripides. (480 or 485–406 B.C.) (continued) |
| | | 8500 | Try first thyself, and after call in God;
For to the worker God himself lends aid. 1 |
| Hippolytus. Frag. 435. |
| 8501 | | Second thoughts are ever wiser. 2 |
| Hippolytus. Frag. 436. |
| 8502 | | Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. |
| Licymnius. Frag. 477. |
| 8503 | | Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. |
| Meleager. Frag. 523. |
| 8504 | | A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. |
| Meleager. Frag. 525. |
| 8505 | | Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. |
| Œdipus. Frag. 546. |
| 8506 | 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. |
| 8507 | | Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. |
| Phœoenix. Frag. 809. |
| 8508 | Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life? |
| Phrixus. Frag. 830. |
| 8509 | | Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. |
| Phrixus. Frag. 927. |
| 8510 | | The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. |
| Phrixus. Frag. 970. |
| | | Mimnermus. (fl. late 7th cent. B.C.) |
| | | 8511 | | We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead. |
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