Euripides Quotes - Page 2

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

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

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• We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

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  Wisdom, Hurt, Intelligence

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• To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

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  Wise, Ignorant, Seems

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• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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  Silence, Silence Is, True Wisdom

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• Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

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  Inspirational, Men, Rich

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• Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

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  Crazy, Mad, Firsts

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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

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  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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  Life, Wise, Power

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish.

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  Death, Men, Good Man

  "Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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• What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

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  Grief, Loss, Land

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• A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

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  Wise, Men, Wife

  Euripides (1836). “Euripides”, p.164

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• Common sense is the best prophet.

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  Common Sense, Common, Prophet

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• Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

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  Heaven, Moderation

  "Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

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  Mistake, Men, True Power

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• When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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  Evil, Mind, Woe

  "Orestes". Play by Euripides, 408 BCE.

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• When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

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  Love, Men, Honor

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

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  Ocean, Savages, Earth

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

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  Causes, Argument

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Simple

  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 same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

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  Success, Men, Excellence

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press

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• Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

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  Character, Discipline, Joy

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• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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  Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

  "Alexander". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

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  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

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  Travel, Inspirational Life

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

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• Leave no stone unturned.

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  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.236, Modern Library

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