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- Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
- Euripides, 'Rhesus'
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
- Euripides, 438 B.C.
- A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
- Euripides, Aegeus
- The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
- Euripides, Aegeus
- Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides, Aeolus
- A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. - Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Time cancels young pain.
- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
- Euripides, Antigone
- I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. - Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.
- In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
- Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
- Leave no stone unturned.
- Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
- In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
- Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
- My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
- Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
- There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. - Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
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