Euripides Quotes - Page 16

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• Many a maiden,
  With white feet glancing light as air,
  Made happy music through the gloom.

  Euripides

  Dance, Light, Air

  "The Trojan Women".

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• If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

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  God, Perfect, Lacking

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• Venus, thy eternal sway
  All the race of men obey.
  Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
  He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

  Euripides

  Life, Men, Race

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• God helps him who strives hard.

  Euripides

  Helping, Strive, Strife

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• Woman is woman's natural ally.

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  Women, Allies, Natural

  "Alope". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

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  Soul, Depth, Levels

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• Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

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  Inspirational, Time, Speak

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• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

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  Mother, Husband, Heart

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• And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

  Euripides

  Wealth

  Phoenissae, l.558.

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• I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

  Euripides

  Stronger, Found

  Alcestis, l.965 (translated by D Kovacs, 1994).

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• tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

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  Heart, Teeth, Doe

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

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  Wise, Men, Saws

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

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  Crush, Adversity, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

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  Shining, Trouble, Hours

  Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204

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• None wise dares hopeless venture.

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  Wise, Venture, Hopeless

  Helena, l.811 (translated by A S Way, 1959).

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• The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

  Euripides

  Men, Bad Man

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• They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

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  Tears, Sweetness, Weeping

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

  Euripides

  Mind, Tongue, Stills

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

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  Two, Unhappiness, Wretched

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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

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• Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

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  Men, Company, Every Man

  Phoenix fragment 812 (translation by Morris Hickey Morgan).

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• There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

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  Emotional, Joy, Feelings

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

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• 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

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• Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

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  Revenge, Guilt, Death Penalty

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.203, University of Chicago Press

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• The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

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  Men, Cities, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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