Euripides - Happiness Quotes

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

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Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

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What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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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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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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