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“Man's most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides II: Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women. Ion. Rhesus. The suppliant women by David Grene, Richmond Alexander Lattimore (eds.), Modern Library, 1963, p. 73
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps
Source: The Children of Herakles
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
Variant: Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Source: The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 BC)
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Source: Orestes (408 BC), l. 907
Bellerophon
Context: Doth some one say that there be gods above?
There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool,
Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.
Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words
No undue credence: for I say that kings
Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud,
And doing thus are happier than those
Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity
Is built-up from our good and evil luck.
“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”
Temenidæ Frag. 734
Context: 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.
“Account no man happy till he dies.”
Sophocles in Oedipus Rex
Variant in Herodotus 1.32: Count no man happy until he is dead.
Misattributed