Euripides Quotes - Page 5

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• Much effort, much prosperity.

  Euripides

  Meaningful, Effort, Literature

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

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• Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

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  God, Moving, Might

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

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• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

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  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

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  Wise, Pain, House

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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  Grief, Past, Love Is

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• This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

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  Courage, Inspiration, Men

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

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• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

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  Destiny, Men, Tears

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

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  Women, Fire, Sea

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• Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

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  Work, Trying, Firsts

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• Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

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  Silence, House, Quiet

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.487

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• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

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  Literature, Faces, Authority

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

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• In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

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  Ideas, World, Second Thoughts

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.210, University of Chicago Press

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• The brave venture anything.

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  Courage, Bravery, Brave

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• Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

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  Men, Life And Death, Want

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.122, University of Chicago Press

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• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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  Common Sense, Prophet, Wit

  Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

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• In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

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  Kind, Goodness, All Kinds

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• There is just one life for each of us: our own.

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  Life, Positive, Graduation

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• For the weariest road that man may wend
  Is forth fromn the home of his father.

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  Father, Home, Men

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• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

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  War, Soldier, Funny Leadership

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• Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

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  Men, Circumstances

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• But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

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  Debt, Literature, Pay

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.25, Delphi Classics

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

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  Clever, Medicine, Sick

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

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  Friendship, Clever, Ignorance

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

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• Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Euripides (1958). “Three Great Plays of Euripides”, Signet Book

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