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• In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

  Euripides

  Shining, Trouble, Hours

  Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204

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• It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

  Euripides

  Two Friends, Hatred, Strange

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

  Euripides

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

  Euripides (1929). “Euripides: With an English Translation”

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• The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

  Euripides

  Anger, Rage, Anger And Bitterness

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• The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Luck

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

  Euripides

  Death, Suicide, Trouble

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

  Euripides

  Life, Live For Today, Chance

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

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  Shade, Lasts, Virtue

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Woe

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• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

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  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  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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• Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

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  Grief, Cures, Young

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• A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

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  Dream, Sweet, Dad

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• There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

  Euripides

  Sight, Luck, Enemy

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

  Euripides

  Men, Light, Justice

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

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• Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

  Euripides

  Too Much, Persuasion, Zeal

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

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• I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Goal, Strive

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• There is safety in numbers.

  Euripides

  Numbers, Safety, Investing

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• For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

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  Effort, Desire, Foolish

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• There is the sky, which is all men's together.

  Euripides

  Nature, Men, Sky

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

  Euripides

  Sound, Fool, Speak

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

  Euripides

  Men, Enough, Sufficiency

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

  Euripides

  Life, Men, Envy

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• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  Euripides

  Toil, Ifs, Unbelief

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• Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

  Euripides

  Heart, Bitterness, Judgment

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

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• There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

  Euripides

  Women, Sick, Pleasure

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

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