“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”

—  Euripidés

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.

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ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BC

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