"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
"The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself."
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Source: Melanippe the Wise. Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 412 BCE.
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