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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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• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

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  Children, Eye, Light

  Euripides, “Children In The House”

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• I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

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  Love, Strong, Simple

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

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  Hero, Loyal, Glory

  Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

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  Men, Choices, Honor

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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  Love, Men, Heaven

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• Account no man happy till he dies.

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  Happiness, Men, Accounts

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• What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

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  Future, Doe, Looks

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

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  Envy, Praying

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• Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

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  Struggle, Knowledge, Skills

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• The wife should yield in all things to her lord

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  Yield, Wife, Lord

  Euripides (1956). “Euripides: Plays: Alcestis”

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• Life is short, yet sweet.

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  Life, Sweet, Life Is Short

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• It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

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  Life And Death, Glory, Dies

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

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  Time, Today, Tomorrow

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• Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

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  Inspirational, Life, Running

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, Euripides (1969). “Three plays”

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• God helps him who strives hard.

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  Helping, Strive, Strife

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• Venus, thy eternal sway
  All the race of men obey.
  Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
  He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

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  Life, Men, Race

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• To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

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  Daughter, Sweet, Father

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.180, University of Chicago Press

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• The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

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  Fate, Born

  "Alcmene". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 408 BCE.

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• The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

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  Long, Way, Retribution

  "Ion". I, 1615,

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• If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

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  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

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  Age, Difficult, Temper

  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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• The life of men is painful.

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  Men, Painful

  Hippolytus, l.190.

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• Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

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  Mother, Husband, Heart

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• I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

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  Stronger, Found

  Alcestis, l.965 (translated by D Kovacs, 1994).

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