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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

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  Wise, Fate, Men

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• An ally need not own the land he helps.

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  Land, Justice, Allies

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

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• We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

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  Ideas, Achievement, Knows

  Euripides (1955). “Euripides: Alcestis, translated by R. Lattimore. The Medea, translated by R. Warner. The Heracleidae, translated by R. Glàdstone. Hippolytus, translated by D. Grene”

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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  Fate, Men, Stronger

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

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  Children, Love Is, Men

  Electra, l.265.

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• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

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  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

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• Time cancels young pain.

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  Pain, Young

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Time will bring healing.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Healing

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• Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

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  Honesty, Mind, No Friends

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• How dark are all the ways of god to man!

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  Dark, Men, Way

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• There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

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  Two, People, Bitterness

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• Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

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  Children, Tantrums, Emotion

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

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• Numbers are a fearful thing.

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  Numbers, Fearful

  Euripides (2004). “Hecuba (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.29, Sparklesoup LLC

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• There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

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  Pain, Desire, Lovers

  Euripides (1958). “Three Great Plays of Euripides”, Signet Book

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• The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

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  Wickedness, Fortunate

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

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  Passion, Disaster, Worst

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• Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

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  Life Is Short, Men, Hands

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.58, CUP Archive

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• To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

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  Daughter, Father, Son

  Euripides (1823). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.378

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• Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

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  Greatness, People, House

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

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  Gratitude, Grief, Grieving

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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  Strong, Thinking, Foundation

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

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  Men, Evil, Disease

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• Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

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  Safety, Holding On, Security

  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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• Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

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  Children, Successful, Men

  Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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• Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

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  Looks, Noon, Height

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