Euripides - Hippolytus

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My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

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

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Love distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

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

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Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secret hiding-places of the rocks, that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.

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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

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

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What we know and understand to be noble we fail to carry out, some from laziness, others because they give precedence to some other pleasure than honour.

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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

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Better be sick than tend the sick; the first is but a single ill, the last unites mental grief with manual toil.

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