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Euripides Quotes - Page 16

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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.

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

Blessed, Pride, May

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

Wise, Men, Saws

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Crush, Adversity, Men

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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

Two Friends, Hatred, Strange

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.17, Courier Corporation

None wise dares hopeless venture.

Wise, Venture, Hopeless

Helena, l.811 (translated by A S Way, 1959).

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Shining, Trouble, Hours

Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Tears, Sweetness, Weeping

Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Men, Bad Man

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Mind, Tongue, Stills

Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Children, Wife, Firsts

"Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

Two, Unhappiness, Wretched

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Men, Company, Every Man

Phoenix fragment 812 (translation by Morris Hickey Morgan).

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.

Heart, Men, Keys

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

Anger, Rage, Anger And Bitterness

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Emotional, Joy, Feelings

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

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Evil, Stronger, Criminal Mind

Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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

Revenge, Guilt, Death Penalty

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.203, University of Chicago Press

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Men, Cities, Firsts

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Hope, Men, Undoing

Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Rivers, Sacred, Flow

"Medea". 409,

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Punishment, Wealth

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Passion, Disaster, Worst

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Greatness, People, House

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Men, Evil, Disease

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