Euripides Quotes - Page 11

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• Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

  Euripides

  Men, Should

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.136, CUP Archive

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• Women don't like violence,
  But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

  Euripides

  Husband, Different, Desert

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

  Euripides

  Home, Should, Be Good

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

  Euripides

  Motivational

  "Melanippe the Wise". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 412 BCE.

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• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Second Thoughts

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

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• I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Hate, Funny Friend

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

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• Your very silence shows you agree.

  Euripides

  Book, Beer, Silence

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• Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

  Euripides

  Waiting, Luck, Nine

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

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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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• We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

  Euripides

  Looks, Earth, Mets

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

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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.

  Euripides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

  Euripides

  Courage, Men, Choices

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

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

  Euripides

  Death, Sorry, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• The God knows when to smile.

  Euripides

  God Knows, Knows

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• Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

  Euripides

  Speak, Slave, Free Thought

  Euripides (1814). “The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter”, p.307

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• Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

  Euripides

  Men, Hopeful, Thousand

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

  Euripides

  Emotional, Joy, Feelings

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

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• The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

  Euripides

  Pleasure, Form, All Things

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• When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

  Euripides

  Yield, Flames, Giving

  Euripides (1835). “Euripides :in Three Volumes”, p.179

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• Delusive hope still points to distant good.

  Euripides

  Hope, Stills

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• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

  Euripides

  Pain, Madness, Sanity

  Euripides (1997). “Medea: Hippolytus ; Electra ; Helen”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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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!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

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

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• Dead men have no victory.

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  Men, Victory, Dead Man

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

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