Euripides Quotes - Page 11

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• Authority is never without hate.

  Euripides

  Hate, Authority, Despise

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

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• It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

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  Adversity, Prosperity, Shows

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• Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

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  Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

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• The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

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  Daughter, Home, Wrestling

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• Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

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  Coward, Battle, Cowardice

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

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  Birthday, Mistake, Knowledge

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• I care for riches, to make gifts.

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  Care, Riches, I Care

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

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  Soul, Tongue, Swearing

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

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  Children, Military, May

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• I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

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  Friendship, Hate, Funny Friend

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• Cleverness is not wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Life And Love, Silly

  Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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• The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

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  Moving, Power Moves, Divine Power

  "Bacchae". 382,

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• If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

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  Children, Women, World

  Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• To the worker, God himself lends aid.

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  Work, Aids, Workers

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• Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

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  Envy, Want, Poverty

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

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• What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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  Change, Pride, Greatness

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

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• The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

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  Men, Heaven, Helping

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

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• Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

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  Life, Mortality, Alas

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• He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Ideas

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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

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  Hurt, Men, Order

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• We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

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  Believe, Justice, Injustice

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.251, Bantam Classics

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• You women are all the same, if bed's all right,
  You think everything else can go to the wind.
  But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,
  Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

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  Thinking, Rights, Wind

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• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

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  Children, Eye, Light

  Euripides, “Children In The House”

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

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  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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