Euripides Short Quotes

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

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My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

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Slight not what 's near through aiming at what's far.

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

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What greater grief than the loss of one's
native land.

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

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

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You love the daylight: do you think your
father does not?

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

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O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

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Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain.

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You mention a slave's condition; not to say what one thinks.

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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

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If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

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The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

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A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

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

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Disaster appears, to crush
one man now, but afterward another.

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