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

  Euripides

  Hurt, Character, Men

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

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• Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

  Euripides

  Character, Discipline, Joy

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• The greatest pleasure of life is love.

  Euripides

  Love, Life, Pleasure

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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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• You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

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  Work, Want, Shame

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• How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

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  Sweet, Past, Remember

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• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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  Marriage, Men, Wife

  "Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

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  Thinking, Exaltation, Mystery

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

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

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  Clever, Medicine, Sick

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

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  Character, Men, Good Man

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

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• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

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  Money, Food, Men

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• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

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  Life Is, Glorious

  Iphigenia Aulidensis, l.1252 (translated by W S Merwin and G E Dimock Jr, 1978).

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• Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

  Euripides

  Heaven, Moderation

  "Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

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  Honesty, Night, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

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• If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

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  Way, Wealth, Rich

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

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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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• If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

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  Evil, Religion, Atheism

  Euripides (1971). “The Trojan women”

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• Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

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  Love, Helping Others, Way

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

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• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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  Life, Kindness, Anger

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• Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Grief

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• Time will unveil all things to posterity.

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  All Things, Posterity

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• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

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  Fighting, Literature, Prudent

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

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• A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

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  Clever, Anger, Men

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

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  Wise, Home, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

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• God in heaven has dominion
  Over so many events.
  He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
  And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

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  Heaven, Events, Dominion

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