Garfield (24 September 1881)
“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.
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Euripidés 116
ancient Athenian playwright -480–-406 BCRelated quotes
“The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.”
St. 1.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
“Why was my own dress good enough to live in, and not good enough to die in?”
Diogenes Laertius
“Nobody does good to men with .”
Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: The Nation, Vol. 109 (1919), p. 6: Rodin means without reward.
1900s-1940s
“Men perish but principles live.”
Labour, Nationality and Religion (1910)
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.”
Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).
Source: The Cabinet Council (published 1658), Chapter 25
“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”
Quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. 6.