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• To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

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  Son, Two, Found You

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

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  Struggle, Men, Dies

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

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• If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

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  Children, Women, World

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

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• A woman should always stand by a woman.

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  Should

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

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  Grief, Wine, Sleep

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

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• May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

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  Heart, Men, Keys

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• Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

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  Toil, Reputation, Fame

  "Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.

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• You women are all the same, if bed's all right,
  You think everything else can go to the wind.
  But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,
  Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

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  Thinking, Rights, Wind

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• Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

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  Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

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• We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

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  Believe, Justice, Injustice

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.251, Bantam Classics

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• The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

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  Daughter, Home, Wrestling

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• To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

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  Death, Pain, Thinking

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.255, University of Chicago Press

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• Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

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  Coward, Battle, Cowardice

  "Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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• Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

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  Children, Military, May

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• Better a serpent than a stepmother!

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  Stepmothers, Serpent

  Euripides (1941). “The Alcestis”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

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  Birthday, Mistake, Knowledge

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

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  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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• I care for riches, to make gifts.

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  Care, Riches, I Care

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

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  Soul, Tongue, Swearing

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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  Change, Pride, Greatness

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

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• Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

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  Life, Mortality, Alas

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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  Depression, Mad, Insanity

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• Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

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  Fate, Harsh, Reprieve

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

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  Honest Woman, Honest, Remember

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• For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

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  Blessed, Pride, May

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