Euripides Quotes - Page 10

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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

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  Courage, Men, Choices

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

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• Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

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  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

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  Hate, Cups

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• Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

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  Men, Hopeful, Thousand

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

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  Pleasure, Form, All Things

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• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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  Math, Logic, Reason

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

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  Yield, Flames, Giving

  Euripides (1835). “Euripides :in Three Volumes”, p.179

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• The childless escape much misery.

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  Misery

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• Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

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  Pain, Madness, Sanity

  Euripides (1997). “Medea: Hippolytus ; Electra ; Helen”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

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  Healing, Optimism, Chance

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Euripides, circa 412 BCE.

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• For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

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  Excess, Praise, Disgusting

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

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• Youth holds no society with grief.

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  Time, Grief, Youth

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.173

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• A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

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  Motivational

  "Melanippe the Wise". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 412 BCE.

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• A woman should always stand by a woman.

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  Should

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

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  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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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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  Struggle, Men, Dies

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

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  Decision, Mind, Literature

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• To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

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  Son, Two, Found You

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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  Happiness, Not Happy, Neighbor

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• He who believes needs no explanation.

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  Believe, Needs, Explanation

  Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

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  Ignorance, Adversity, Ignorant

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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• Virtue proceeds through effort.

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  Effort, Virtue

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