"Those whom the gods would destroy they first make proud."
-Sophocles

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of their senses."
Euripides

"Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad."
Seneca

"For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."
John Dryden

"Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Those whom the gods would destroy they first call "promising."
Jan Carew