Euripides Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

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  Evil, Evil Women, Bad Woman

• When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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  Evil, Mind, Woe

  "Orestes". Play by Euripides, 408 BCE.

• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

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  Friendship, Clever, Ignorance

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

• Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

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  True Evil, Faults, Bears

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

• If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

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  Evil, Religion, Atheism

  Euripides (1971). “The Trojan women”

• The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

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  Men, Evil, Bad Man

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.182

• Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

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  Men, Evil, Wickedness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

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  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

• Only a madman would give good for evil

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  Evil, Giving, Madmen

• I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

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  Evil, Stronger, Criminal Mind

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.35, Courier Corporation

• There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

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  Women, Evil, Terrible

• Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

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  Evil, May, Should

• Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

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  Women, Fire, Sea

• Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

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  Men, Evil, Disease

• Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

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  Life Is Short, Men, Hands

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.58, CUP Archive

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