Euripides Quotes

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  Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  Euripides

  Life, Questions And Answers, Answering Questions

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• A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

  Euripides

  Honesty, Integrity, Believe

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Speak

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  Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

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  Friendship, Real, Army

  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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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

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  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  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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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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  Friendship, Positive, Family

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

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• Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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  Grief, Yesterday, Tragedy

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• I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

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  Freedom, Feet, Knees

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  Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press

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• We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

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  Missing, Brain, Mind

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• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

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  Life, Wise, Silence

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• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

  Euripides

  Life, Wise, Power

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• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

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  Wise, Men, Wife

  Euripides (1836). “Euripides”, p.164

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• The wisest men follow their own direction.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Wise, Hard Work

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

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• Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

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  Running, Grief, Giving

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

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• Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

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  Crazy, Mad, Firsts

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• Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

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  Wise, Joy, Sorrow

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• Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

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  Judging, Tree, Judgement

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

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

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• When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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  Evil, Mind, Woe

  "Orestes". Play by Euripides, 408 BCE.

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• It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

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  Wise, Heart, Thinking

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.60, CUP Archive

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• Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

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  Money, Logical Arguments, Persuasive

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• Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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  Strength, Don't Give Up, Literature

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

  Euripides

  Wisdom, Hurt, Intelligence

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