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• Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

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  Marriage, Pain, Joy

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

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• Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

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  Hate, Cups

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• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

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  Strong, Rich, Sexuality

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• A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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  Children, Wife, Firsts

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

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  Wise, Pain, House

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

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  Friendship, Clever, Ignorance

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press

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• Authority is never without hate.

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  Hate, Authority, Despise

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

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• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The bold are helpless without cleverness.

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  Risk, Cleverness, Helpless

  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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• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

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  Literature, Faces, Authority

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

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• Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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  Sadness, Age, Helping

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

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  Honesty, Wealth, Ill

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• A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

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  Children, Parent, Doe

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

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• Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

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  Sadness, Fate, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

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  Life, Friendship, Inspiration

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• Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

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  Humble, Thinking, Enemy

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• All is change; all yields its place and goes.

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  Inspirational, Change, Yield

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

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  Women, Fire, Sea

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• Prosperity is full of friends.

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  Literature, Prosperity

  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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• God gives each his due at the time allotted.

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  Giving, Retribution, Dues

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.267, Bantam Classics

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• Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

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  Song, Heart, Joy

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• Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

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  Voice, Joy, Roaring

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• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

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  Women, Earth, Herbs

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

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  Communication, Mouths, Misery

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