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• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  Euripides

  Peace, Hate, War

  Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

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

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  Men, Prosperity

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

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• He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

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  Hate, War, God Of War

  "Heracleidae". Play by Euripides, 430 BCE.

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• There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

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  Confusion, World

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

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  Men, Wanted, Ifs

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• Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

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  Revenge, Hate, Love Is

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.169, Oxford University Press

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• To the worker, God himself lends aid.

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  Work, Aids, Workers

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• Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

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  Thinking, Cleverness, Mortals

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• Let mortal man keep to his own
  Mortality, and not expect too much.

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  Men, Too Much, Mortality

  Euripides “Alcestis, a story of love”, Lulu.com

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• A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

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  Wise, Charm, Fellows

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• If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

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  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.908, Delphi Classics

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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

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  Decision, Mind, Literature

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• Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

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  Men, Honor, Human Life

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Long, Imagine, Worst

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• The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

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  Men, Heaven, Helping

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

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• He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Ideas

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• Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

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  Love, Heart, Eye

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

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  Mind, Body, Statues

  Electra 386

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• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Anger

  "Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays". Book edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, 1888.

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• If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

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  Sex, Night, Thinking

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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

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  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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• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

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  Men, Evil, Wickedness

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

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• I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

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  Luxury, Differences, Littles

  "Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion".

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