Evil that men do lives after them

There seems to have been a difference of opinion on this matter between William Shakespeare and the Greek writer Euripides. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare has Mark Anthony speak after Caesar’s death as follows: “The evil that men do lives after them;/The good is oft interred with their bones.” But Euripides, who lived in the 5th century B.C., stated it quite differently: “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.”