Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Meleager. Frag. 523.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

Meleager. Frag. 525.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Œdipus. Frag. 546.

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.

Temenidæ. Frag. 734.