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Euripides Quotes - Page 11

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If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

Children, Women, World

Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Wisdom, Life And Love, Silly

Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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

Moving, Power Moves, Divine Power

"Bacchae". 382,

Virtue proceeds through effort.

Effort, Virtue

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

Work, Aids, Workers

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

Men, Heaven, Helping

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

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Wise, Men, Ideas

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Life, Mortality, Alas

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

Hurt, Men, Order

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Change, Pride, Greatness

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

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

Believe, Justice, Injustice

Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.251, Bantam Classics

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

Depression, Mad, Insanity

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

Children, Eye, Light

Euripides, “Children In The House”

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

Love, Strong, Simple

Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.34, Lulu.com

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Sadness, Fate, Men

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

Hero, Loyal, Glory

Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

Looks, Earth, Mets

Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Men, Choices, Honor

Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

Account no man happy till he dies.

Happiness, Men, Accounts

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Love, Men, Heaven

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

Home, Should, Be Good

"Meleager". Play by Euripides, 418 BCE.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Honest Woman, Honest, Remember

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Fate, Harsh, Reprieve

Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.132, University of Chicago Press

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Thinking, Rights, Wind

The life of men is painful.

Men, Painful

Hippolytus, l.190.

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