Euripides

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

— Euripides

I think, Even act or speak or scheme in secret.

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For nothing is there more sweet unto an aged father than a daughter

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Naught is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are in the first place no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end.

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When good men die their goodness does not perish, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

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Man's most valuable traitis a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

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Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry from carrying you up into the fields of light.

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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

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Dishonour will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

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Today's today. Tomorrow we may beourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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Time cancels young pain.

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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,A herb most bruised is woman.

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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards.

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The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

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

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

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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

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Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.

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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

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

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The credit we get for wisdom is measured by our success.

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

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When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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[T]his is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

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Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

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

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

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Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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

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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

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

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

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Woman is woman's natural ally.

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

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The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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

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Dionysus: He who believes needs no explanation.Dionysus: Much worth, but not worth telling you, it seems.

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

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Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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Doth some one say that there be gods above? Is built-up from our good and evil luck.

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I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.

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I care for riches, to make gifts With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

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I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

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Authority is never without hate.

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Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone.

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The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

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Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

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

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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

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

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There is just one life for each of us: our own.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise.

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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

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Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise.

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