Euripides Quotes & Sayings

#1. Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

#2. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love

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#3. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.

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

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#5. Only a madman would give good for evil

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#6. O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?

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#7. He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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#8. I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

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#9. Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

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#10. Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?

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#11. We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.

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#12. Money is the wise man's religion.

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#13. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

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#14. The wise with hope support the pains of life.

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#15. Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

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#16. Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.

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#17. Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

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#18. Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

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#19. A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

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#20. I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

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#21. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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#22. Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

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#23. Delusive hope still points to distant good.

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#24. no man,
is ever happy, no one.

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#25. Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

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#26. God helps him who strives hard.

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#27. We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

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#28. Friends show their love in times of trouble.

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#29. Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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#30. But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

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#31. O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

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#32. Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

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#33. My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.

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

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#35. Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

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#36. Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

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#37. Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

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#38. So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.

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#39. If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

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#40. Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

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#41. Death will be my wedding, children and glory.

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#42. Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

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#43. No one who lives in error is free.

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

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#45. Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

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#46. Prosperity is full of friends.

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#47. May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

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#48. You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

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#49. Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

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#50. Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

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#51. Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don't expect
some god finds a way to make it happen.
So with this story

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#52. To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

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#53. Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

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#54. For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

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#55. The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

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#56. To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

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#57. It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

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#58. In childbirth grief begins.

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#59. The language of truth is simple.

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

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#61. Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

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#62. What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

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#63. The brave venture anything.

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#64. A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

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#65. Or else I would have sung a song
in response to what the male sex sings.
For our lengthy past has much to say
about men's lives as well as ours

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#66. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

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#67. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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#68. The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

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

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#70. The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

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#71. It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS

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#72. I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

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#73. 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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#74. And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

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#75. The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

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#77. Your very silence shows you agree.

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#78. Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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#79. The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

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#80. A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

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#81. All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

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#82. O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helpless agony before the oppressor?
O Lord, come down from Olympus,
shake your golden thyrsus
and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.

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#83. Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

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#84. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

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#85. The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

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#86. I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

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#87. Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

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#88. The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

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#89. I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night

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#90. Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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#91. Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

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#92. Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

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#93. Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

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