| 59 Famous Quotes by Euripides
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“Cleverness is not wisdom”
Cleverness Quotes |
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“Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves”
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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
Necessity Quotes |
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“Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves”
Travel Quotes |
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“It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.”
Gifts Quotes Source: Medea (964)
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“Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked
man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on
the bad.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Fragment
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“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.”
Punishment Quotes Source: Fragment
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“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom
in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,
but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway,
and this is no longer equal.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right.”
Tyranny Quotes Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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“Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.”
Action Quotes Source: quoted by Emerson
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“But woe to him, who left to moan,
Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”
Memory Quotes Source: Iphigenia in Taurus (l. 1,121), (translation by Anstice)
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“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”
Fortune Quotes Source: Pirithous
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“A bad ending follows a bad beginning.”
Results Quotes Source: Frag. Melanip. (Stoboeus)
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“The variety of all things forms a pleasure.”
Variety Quotes Source: Orestes (234)
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“For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
Prudence Quotes Source: Pirithous, (adapted)
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“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”
Society Quotes Source: Phoemissoe (frag. 809)
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“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a
famous city.”
Cities Quotes Source: Encomium on Alcibiades, probably quoted
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“God helps him who strives hard.”
Help Quotes Source: Eumenidoe
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“The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Orestes (l. 846)
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“O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!”
Nobility Quotes Source: Ion (238)
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“The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is
turned topsy turvy.)”
Rivers Quotes Source: Medea (409)
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“But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first
perverts his mind.
[Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,
Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]”
Insanity Quotes Source: Fragment (25), (Baine's edition)
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“Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.”
Trouble Quotes Source: Andromeda (10, 2), (fragment)
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“A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.”
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“Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.”
Romance Quotes |
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