Euripides Quotes - Page 2

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.
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A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
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To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
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The coward despairs.
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A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.
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To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
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One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.
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It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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All is change all yields its place and goes.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
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Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.
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To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
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I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
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We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
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Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?
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By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.
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Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
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Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
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Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours
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Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive
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Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
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For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
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O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
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Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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The good and wise lead quite lives
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Leave no stone unturned.
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Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
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What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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