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• Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

  Euripides

  Daughter, Children, Pain

  Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

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• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

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  Sweet, Safety, Remembrance

  "Andromeda". Play by Euripides, 412 BCE.

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• The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

  Euripides

  God, Moving, Order

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (1863). “The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus”, p.175

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• Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

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  Eye, Sunshine, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.

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  Dream, Joy, Vision

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

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• He who believes needs no explanation.

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  Believe, Needs, Explanation

  Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

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• The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

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  Sympathy, Men, He Man

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

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  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

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

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• For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

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  Excess, Praise, Disgusting

  Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

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• No one is happy all his life long.

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  Life, Happiness, Long

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• Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

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  Hurt, Men, Order

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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

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  Character, Men, Righteous Man

  "Aegeus". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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  Math, Logic, Reason

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Death, Men, Life Is

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

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• It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

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  Heart, Commitment, Tongue

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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

  Euripides

  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love

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• Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

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  Wine, Terrible, Foe

  Euripides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)”, p.924, Delphi Classics

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• Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

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  Soul, Affection, Chains

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.202, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Children, Hate, Wife

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

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• Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

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  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

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  Literature, Parliament

  "Rhesus". Play by Euripides, circa 435 BCE.

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• The best of seers is he who guesses well.

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  Literature, Wells, Seers

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