Euripides Quotes - Page 6

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• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Benefits, Joints

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

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• Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

  Euripides

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Noble

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.215, University of Chicago Press

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• The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

  Euripides

  Silence, Tongue, Truest

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

  Euripides

  Honesty, Wealth, Ill

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• Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Wine, Son

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• A man who has been in danger,
  When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
  And sometimes he forgets his promises.

  Euripides

  Fear, Men, Promise

  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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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

  Euripides

  Hate, War, God Of War

  "Heracleidae". Play by Euripides, 430 BCE.

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• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  Euripides

  Peace, Hate, War

  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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• Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

  Euripides

  Humble, Thinking, Enemy

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• Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

  Euripides

  Dream, Joy, Vision

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

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• The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

  Euripides

  God, Moving, Order

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

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• In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Merit

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• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

  Euripides

  Wise, Hate, Educational

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• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

  Euripides

  Life, Friendship, Inspiration

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

  Euripides

  Luxury, Differences, Littles

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (1863). “The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus”, p.175

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• One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

  Euripides

  Trying, Doe, Racist

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• A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

  Euripides

  Children, Parent, Doe

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

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• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  Euripides

  Men, Sick, Ease

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

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

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• Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

  Euripides

  Eye, Sunshine, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

  Euripides

  Answers, Smooth, Signifying

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• courage is the gift of character

  Euripides

  Character

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

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