“Whom the gods love dies young.”
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He whom the gods love dies young.
The Double Deceiver, frag. 4.
Variant: ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν, ἀποθνῄσκει νέος.
Source: Menander: The Plays and Fragments
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ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος
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Menander 18
Athenian playwright of New Comedy -342–-291 BCRelated quotes

“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
A humorous reference to Menander's "ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνῄσκει νέος [whom the gods love dies young]".
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”
Guru Granth Sahib p. 83

Of Humanity -->
A short Schem of the true Religion

Source: 1910s, Prejudices, First Series (1919), Ch. 16

“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of love was born.”
Love's Deity, stanza 1

“Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.”