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Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

True Evil, Faults, Bears

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

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Crazy, Mad, Firsts

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

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

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Ocean, Savages, Earth

Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Hurt, Character, Men

Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Silence, Silence Is, True Wisdom

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Strength, Don't Give Up, Literature

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Running, Grief, Giving

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

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Wisdom, Hurt, Intelligence

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Freedom, Law, People

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Death, Men, Good Man

"Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Character, Men, Good Man

"Temenidae". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Love, Life, Pleasure

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Causes, Argument

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

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Evil, Mind, Woe

"Orestes". Play by Euripides, 408 BCE.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Love, Men, Honor

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.20, Courier Corporation

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Success, Men, Excellence

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.228, University of Chicago Press

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Wise, Ignorant, Seems

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Inspirational, Happiness, Simple

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

Leave no stone unturned.

Wisdom, Book, Beer

Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.236, Modern Library

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Clever, Anger, Men

Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.11, Courier Corporation

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Wise, Men, Darkness

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Character, Discipline, Joy

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

"Alexander". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

Money is the wise man's religion.

Wise, Money, Men

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

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