Euripides Quotes

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

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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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A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

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Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

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When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

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

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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.

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To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

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For the weariest road that man may wend
Is forth fromn the home of his father.

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Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

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Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

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Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

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