Euripides

Account no man happy till he dies.

— Euripides

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

— Euripides

“In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

Leave no stone untamed.

— Euripides

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

— Euripides

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

— Euripides

“Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”

— Euripides

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

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When good men die their goodness does not perish.

— Euripides

“whose sons would cling bold to the craggy heights of war”

— Euripides

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

— Euripides

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

— Euripides

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

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The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into…

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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and…

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“O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human…

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The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with…

— Euripides

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you…

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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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“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny…

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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

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Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love…

— Euripides

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or…

— Euripides

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else…

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“What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great? To stand from fear set…

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“This town must learn, even against its will, how much it costs to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged. So…

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When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways,…

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If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to…

— Euripides

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the…

— Euripides

“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise,…

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“For strangely graven Is the orb of life, that one and another In gold and power may outpass his brother. And men…

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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to…

— Euripides

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the…

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Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or…

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Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is.…

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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

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“You gave birth to your own death.”

— Euripides