Euripides quotes - page 8

If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning. (Euripides)
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. View quote
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If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes. View quote
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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. View quote
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. View quote
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Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck. View quote
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What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw. View quote
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The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. View quote
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Life is short, yet sweet. View quote
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You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. View quote
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Time will reveal everything to posterity it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put. (Euripides)
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. View quote
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. View quote
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Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive. View quote
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Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. View quote
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Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. View quote
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It's human; we all put self interest first. View quote
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For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. View quote
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She sings a dark destructive song. View quote
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I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils human beings do. View quote
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The words of truth are naturally simple, and justice needs no subtle interpretations, for it has a fitness in itself. (Euripides)
Good slaves [are affected by] the adversities of their masters. View quote
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Let me tell you, if anyone in the past has spoken ill of women, or speaks so now or will speak so in the future, I'll sum it up for him: Neither sea nor land has ever produced a more monstrous creature than woman. View quote
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. View quote
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. View quote
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