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- The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
- Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
- Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phoenix
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- Force has no place where there is need of skill.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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