Euripides Quotes - Page 15

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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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  Gratitude, Grief, Grieving

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Men, Evil, Disease

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• My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

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  Heart, Hands, Clean

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• Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

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  Mean, Excellence, Consent

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

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  Sacrifice, Blood, Cures

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• Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

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  Mistake, Sick, Mind

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• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

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  Perseverance, Courage, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.21, University of Chicago Press

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• Only a madman would give good for evil

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  Evil, Giving, Madmen

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• A change is always nice.

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  Nice

  Orestes, l.234 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• Leave no stone untamed.

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  Untamed, Stones

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• What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

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  Future, Doe, Looks

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

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  Character, Presidential, Stamps

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• In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

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  Rewards, Pleasure, Payment

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.230, University of Chicago Press

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• Life is short, yet sweet.

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  Life, Sweet, Life Is Short

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• Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

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  Envy, Praying

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• Love's all in all to women.

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  Women, Men Women

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• Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

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  Mankind

  Euripides (1998). “Euripides: Ten Plays”, p.108, Penguin

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• It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

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  Said

  "Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

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  Sweet, Men, Light

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• The wife should yield in all things to her lord

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  Yield, Wife, Lord

  Euripides (1956). “Euripides: Plays: Alcestis”

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• When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

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  Song, Wrath, Two

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

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  Brave, Coward, Endure

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• Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

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  Hurt, Men, Wrath

  Medea, l.1080 (translated by D Kovacs, 1994).

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• You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

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  Fate, Sorrow, Stranger

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• Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

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  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, Euripides (1969). “Three plays”

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