Euripides - God Quotes

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

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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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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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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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We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

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

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

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

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

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The sweetest teaching did he introduce,
Concealing truth under untrue speech.
The place he spoke of as the gods' abode
Was that by which he might awe humans most, —
The place from which, he knew, terrors came to mortals
And things advantageous in their wearisome life —
The revolving heaven above, in which dwell
The lightnings, and awesome claps
Of thunder, and the starry face of heaven,
Beautiful and intricate by that wise craftsman Time, —
From which, too, the meteor's glowing mass speeds
And wet thunderstorm pours forth upon the earth.

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God, these old men!
How they pray for death! How heavy they find this life in the slow drag of days!
And yet, when Death comes near them,
You will not find one who will rise and walk with him, not one whose years are still a burden to him.

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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lend aid.

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These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.

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I would win my way to the coast, apple-bearing Hesperian coast of which the minstrels sing, where the Lord of the Ocean denies the voyager further sailing, and fixes the solemn limit of Heaven which giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love, and holy Earth, the giver of life, yields to the gods rich blessedness.

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Doth some one say that there be gods above?
There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool,
Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.
Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words
No undue credence: for I say that kings
Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud,
And doing thus are happier than those
Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity
Is built-up from our good and evil luck.

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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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I think,
Some shrewd man first, a man in judgment wise,
Found for mortals the fear of gods,
Thereby to frighten the wicked should they
Even act or speak or scheme in secret.

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I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.

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May temperance befriend me,
the gods' most lovely gift.

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What is wisdom? What gift of the gods is held in glory like this: to hold your hand victorious over the heads of those you hate? Glory is precious forever.

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The divine will manifests itself in many forms,
and the gods bring many things to pass against our expectations.
What we thought would happen remains unfulfilled,
while the god has found a way to accomplish the unexpected.
And that is what has happened here.

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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

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