Euripides Quotes - Page 3

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• It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• Action achieves more than words.

  Euripides

  Action, Achieve

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• Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

  Euripides

  Travel, Inspirational Life

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

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• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

  "Alexander". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

  Euripides

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  "Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

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• A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

  Euripides

  Clever, Anger, Men

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Exaltation, Mystery

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

  Euripides

  Wise, Home, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

  Euripides

  Evil, Religion, Atheism

  Euripides (1971). “The Trojan women”

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• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

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  Life Is, Glorious

  Iphigenia Aulidensis, l.1252 (translated by W S Merwin and G E Dimock Jr, 1978).

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• How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Past, Remember

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• Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

  Euripides

  Character, Discipline, Joy

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• Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

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  Love, Helping Others, Way

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

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• Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Grief

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• You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

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  Work, Want, Shame

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• The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

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  Honesty, Night, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

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• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

  Euripides

  Life, Kindness, Anger

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• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

  Euripides

  Blow, Men, Yield

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

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• God in heaven has dominion
  Over so many events.
  He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
  And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

  Euripides

  Heaven, Events, Dominion

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• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

  Euripides

  Fighting, Literature, Prudent

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

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• Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

  Euripides

  Disease, Worst, Humans

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

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  Life, Success, Character

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

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• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  Euripides

  Character, Gold, Literature

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

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• Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

  Euripides

  Not Giving Up, Hopeless, Hopelessness

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