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Euripides Quotes - Page 7

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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Thinking, Cleverness, Mortals

"The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Forgiveness, Son, Men

Euripides (1958). “Euripides”

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Heart, Commitment, Tongue

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

Love, Heart, Eye

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

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Wise, Pain, Support

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Giving, Retribution, Dues

Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.267, Bantam Classics

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

Children, Hate, Wife

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

Trying, Doe, Racist

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Men, Prosperity

Euripides (1915). “Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version”

Prosperity is full of friends.

Literature, Prosperity

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”

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Sad, Children, Pain

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”

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Mean, Power, Suffering

Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Men, Hands, Leader

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

Bear calamities with meekness.

Bears, Calamity, Meekness

Euripides (1820). “The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].”, p.228

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Success, Achievement, Judgement

Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.92, Bantam Classics

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Gold, Flipping A Coin, Coins

"Oedipus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 415 and 406 BCE.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

Men, Wanted, Ifs

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Men, Sea, Storm

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Destiny, Lasts, Fortune

Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Hate, Too Much, Action

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

Long, Imagine, Worst

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Death, Men, Life Is

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

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Mind, Body, Statues

Electra 386

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Dark, Men, Missing

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Risk, Cleverness, Helpless

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

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