Euripides Quotes

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To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

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Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

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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.

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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.

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High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

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Numbers are a fearful thing, and joined to craft a desperate foe.

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If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

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What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

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What shall I say? that thou from Heaven look'st down Upon mankind, or have they rashly formed A vain opinion, deeming that the race Of gods exists, though fortune governs all?

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Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

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If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

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

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Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

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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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A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

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Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

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It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

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What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

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A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

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Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

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The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

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There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

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Better be sick than tend the sick; the first is but a single ill, the last unites mental grief with manual toil.

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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

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To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

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