Euripides Quotes

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

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It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

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Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

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

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When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

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The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

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Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

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Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

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In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

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Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

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Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

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The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

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A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises.

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What we know and understand to be noble we fail to carry out, some from laziness, others because they give precedence to some other pleasure than honour.

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This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

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Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

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

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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

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Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secret hiding-places of the rocks, that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.

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

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To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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