Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) “Words with too good a ring—those are what destroy men’s well-ordered cities and their homes. We must not say things that delight the ears—but what will save our reputation.” From Euripides’ Hippolytus (approximately between lines 480-490), translated by James Morwood in Medea and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998, 2008).