Euripides Quotes - Page 9

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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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• He who believes needs no explanation.

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  Believe, Needs, Explanation

  Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

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• No one is happy all his life long.

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  Life, Happiness, Long

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

  Euripides

  Dream, Joy, Vision

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

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  Life, Friendship, Inspiration

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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Food, Wine, Cooking

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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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• 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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• 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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• Where there is no wine there is no love.

  Euripides

  Wine, Bottles Of Wine, Wine And Love

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

  Euripides

  Heart, Commitment, Tongue

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

  Euripides

  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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• 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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• 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 best of seers is he who guesses well.

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  Literature, Wells, Seers

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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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• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

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  Beauty, Humans

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

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• Virtue proceeds through effort.

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  Effort, Virtue

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