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• The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

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  Deep Love, Hatred, Worst

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• It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

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  Dark, Men, Missing

  Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

  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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• Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

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  Gone, May, Today

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

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  Fate, Men, Endurance

  William Arrowsmith, Euripides (1954). “The conversion of Herakles: an essay in Euripidean tragic structure”

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• Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

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  Song, Heart, Joy

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• In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

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  Men, Hands, Leader

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

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• Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

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  Husband, Grieving, Waste

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• Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

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  Soul, Affection, Chains

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

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  Sad, Children, Pain

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

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  Home, Should, Be Good

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

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  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love

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• Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

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  Wine, Terrible, Foe

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.924, Delphi Classics

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• Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

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  Thinking, Cleverness, Mortals

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

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• Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

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  Voice, Joy, Roaring

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• It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

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  Heart, Commitment, Tongue

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• Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

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  Men, Sea, Storm

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• Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

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  Dies, Ifs, Mortals

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• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

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  Prayer, Lying, Men

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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  Forgiveness, Son, Men

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides”

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• To generous souls every task is noble.

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  Generosity, Soul, Tasks

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• The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

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  Children, Hate, Wife

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

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  Men, Prosperity

  Euripides (1915). “Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version”

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• God gives each his due at the time allotted.

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  Giving, Retribution, Dues

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.267, Bantam Classics

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• When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

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  Husband, Wife, Cheated

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

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