Euripides - Wise Quotes

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Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.

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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

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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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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

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

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

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It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

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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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