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• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

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  Women, Earth, Herbs

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

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  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• All is change; all yields its place and goes.

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  Inspirational, Change, Yield

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

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  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

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  Revenge, Hate, Love Is

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.169, Oxford University Press

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• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

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  Sweet, Safety, Remembrance

  "Andromeda". Play by Euripides, 412 BCE.

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• It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

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  Marriage, Beauty, Girl

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

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  Communication, Mouths, Misery

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• Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

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  Sympathy, Men, He Man

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• Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

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  Daughter, Children, Pain

  Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

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• What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

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  Death, Sorry, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Your very silence shows you agree.

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  Book, Beer, Silence

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• Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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  Sadness, Age, Helping

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

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• Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

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  Literature, Parliament

  "Rhesus". Play by Euripides, circa 435 BCE.

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• Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

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  Inspiration, Men, Contemplation

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• Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

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  Men, Evil, Wickedness

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

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• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Second Thoughts

  Euripides (2015). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.250, Xist Publishing

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• If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

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  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

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  Hate, Lovers, Turns

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• A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

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  Wise, Charm, Fellows

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• Delusive hope still points to distant good.

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  Hope, Stills

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• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Anger

  "Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays". Book edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, 1888.

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• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

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  Children, Mean, Men

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

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• Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

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  Wise, Men, Giving

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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