Euripides Quotes - Page 10

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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Virtue proceeds through effort.

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  Effort, Virtue

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• Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

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  Beauty, Humans

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

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• What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

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  Men, Religion

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

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  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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  Happiness, Not Happy, Neighbor

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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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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• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

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  Ignorance, Adversity, Ignorant

  "Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

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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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• Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

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  Hate, Heart, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.195, University of Chicago Press

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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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• According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

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  Success, Achievement, Judgement

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.92, Bantam Classics

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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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• Cleverness is not wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Life And Love, Silly

  Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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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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• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

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  Mean, Power, Suffering

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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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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• Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

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  Judgement, Sound, Seers

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• It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

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  Said

  "Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

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  Women

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

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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

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  Wise, Men, Ideas

  "Sisyphus". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

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  Home, Government, Way

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

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• The wise with hope support the pains of life.

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  Wise, Pain, Support

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• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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  Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment

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

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• The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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  Children, Father, Sin

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

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