Euripides Quotes
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
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Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
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Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.
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Common sense is the best prophet.
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The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
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Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
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To generous souls every task is noble.
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To the worker, God himself lends aid.
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.
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All is change; all yields its place and goes.
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There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.