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Euripides Quotes - Page 10

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For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Excess, Praise, Disgusting

Euripides (1832). “Euripides”, p.181

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Men, Hopeful, Thousand

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.58, University of Chicago Press

Youth holds no society with grief.

Time, Grief, Youth

Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.173

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Motivational

"Melanippe the Wise". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 412 BCE.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Men, Evil, Wickedness

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

Grief, Wine, Sleep

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Struggle, Men, Dies

Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Decision, Mind, Literature

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

Son, Two, Found You

Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Sweet, Children, Spring

He who believes needs no explanation.

Believe, Needs, Explanation

Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness, Not Happy, Neighbor

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Ignorance, Adversity, Ignorant

"Antiope". Play by Euripides, 410 BCE.

Authority is never without hate.

Hate, Authority, Despise

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Adversity, Prosperity, Shows

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

Daughter, Home, Wrestling

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

Coward, Battle, Cowardice

"Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

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

Husband, Grieving, Waste

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

Soul, Tongue, Swearing

Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

I care for riches, to make gifts.

Care, Riches, I Care

Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Children, Military, May

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Dies, Ifs, Mortals

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Friendship, Hate, Funny Friend

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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