Euripides Quotes - Page 7

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• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

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

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• Who knows but life be that which men call death,
  And death what men call life?

  Euripides

  Death, Men, Life Is

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

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• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  Euripides

  Mean, Power, Suffering

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

  Euripides

  Children, Hate, Wife

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

  Euripides

  Silence, Tongue, Truest

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

  Euripides

  Trying, Doe, Racist

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• Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

  Euripides

  Men, Prosperity

  Euripides (1915). “Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version”

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• In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

  Euripides

  Men, Hands, Leader

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

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• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  Euripides

  Sad, Children, Pain

  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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• Prosperity is full of friends.

  Euripides

  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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• Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

  Euripides

  Judgement, Sound, Seers

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• It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

  Euripides

  Dark, Men, Missing

  Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• None can hold fortune still and make it last.

  Euripides

  Destiny, Lasts, Fortune

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• Bear calamities with meekness.

  Euripides

  Bears, Calamity, Meekness

  Euripides (1820). “The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].”, p.228

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• According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

  Euripides

  Success, Achievement, Judgement

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.92, Bantam Classics

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• Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

  Euripides

  Gold, Flipping A Coin, Coins

  "Oedipus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 415 and 406 BCE.

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• Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

  Euripides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

  Euripides

  Men, Wanted, Ifs

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• The best of seers is he who guesses well.

  Euripides

  Literature, Wells, Seers

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• Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

  Euripides

  Hate, Too Much, Action

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• When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

  Euripides

  Long, Imagine, Worst

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

  Euripides

  Women, Earth, Herbs

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

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• The bold are helpless without cleverness.

  Euripides

  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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• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Euripides

  Wise, Courage, Men

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

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• Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

  Euripides

  Mind, Body, Statues

  Electra 386

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