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• I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Goal, Strive

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• There is safety in numbers.

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  Numbers, Safety, Investing

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• Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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  Too Much, Persuasion, Zeal

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

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• To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

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  Sound, Fool, Speak

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

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  Men, Enough, Sufficiency

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

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  Life, Men, Envy

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• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

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  Toil, Ifs, Unbelief

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• For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

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  Effort, Desire, Foolish

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• There is the sky, which is all men's together.

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  Nature, Men, Sky

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

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  Heart, Bitterness, Judgment

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

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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

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  Wise, Fate, Men

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• Dead men have no victory.

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  Men, Victory, Dead Man

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

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• There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

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  Women, Sick, Pleasure

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

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• We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

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  Ideas, Achievement, Knows

  Euripides (1955). “Euripides: Alcestis, translated by R. Lattimore. The Medea, translated by R. Warner. The Heracleidae, translated by R. Glàdstone. Hippolytus, translated by D. Grene”

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• An ally need not own the land he helps.

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  Land, Justice, Allies

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

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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  Fate, Men, Stronger

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

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  Children, Love Is, Men

  Electra, l.265.

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• 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.

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• Time cancels young pain.

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  Pain, Young

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Time will bring healing.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Healing

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• Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

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  Honesty, Mind, No Friends

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

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  Daughter, Father, Son

  Euripides (1823). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.378

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• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

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  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

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  Greatness, People, House

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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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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  Strong, Thinking, Foundation

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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