Euripides

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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.

  Frg. 734 (Bartlett’s, 1892)

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

  Hippolytus (428 B.C.), l. 435.

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• ‘Twas but my tongue, ‘twas not my soul that swore.

  Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 612 (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1902)

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