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Euripides Quotes - Page 12

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Euripides (1814). “The tragedies of Euripides translated [by R. Potter]. by R. Potter”, p.307

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

"Licymnius". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 430 BCE.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Euripides (1929). “Euripides: With an English Translation”

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

"Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

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

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

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

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

"Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

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”

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

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

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

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

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