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Euripides Quotes - Page 3

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Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Travel, Inspirational Life

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

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

Sweet, Past, Remember

Action achieves more than words.

Action, Achieve

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Honesty, Night, Men

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

Wise, Home, Men

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.206, University of Chicago Press

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Life Is, Glorious

Iphigenia Aulidensis, l.1252 (translated by W S Merwin and G E Dimock Jr, 1978).

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Heaven, Moderation

"Medea". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Thinking, Exaltation, Mystery

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

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Money, Food, Men

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Love, Helping Others, Way

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

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Life, Success, Character

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

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Life, Kindness, Anger

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

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

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Blow, Men, Yield

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

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Work, Want, Shame

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Inspirational, Life, Art

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

Inspirational, Motivational, Grief

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Men, Events, Permission

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Evil, Religion, Atheism

Euripides (1971). “The Trojan women”

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Heaven, Events, Dominion

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Not Giving Up, Hopeless, Hopelessness

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Character, Gold, Literature

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

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Marriage, Men, Wife

"Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Men, Giving, Benefits

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

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Wise, Literature, Influence

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