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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad is a saying that has appeared in English literature in varying forms since the 17th century. In some variations, "gods" is replaced with "God" or "Jupiter," and the saying is sometimes rendered in Latin: Quos Deus / Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, prius dementat. Although sometimes falsely attributed to Euripides, the phrase does have classical Greek antecedents. The saying first appears in English in exactly the above form in the Reverend William Anderson Scott's book Daniel, a Model for Young Men (1854) and is attributed to a "heathen proverb." It later appears in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Masque of Pandora" (1875) and other places.
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