It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
¶ (Attributed)
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Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
¶ Alexander, Fragment 44
I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
¶ Electra (413 BC)
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
¶ Helen (412 BC)
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
¶ Rhesus, 482
But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.
¶ The Phoenician Women, l. 392
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