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- 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.
- A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
- Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
- The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
- Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
- I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. - Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
- There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
- Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
- What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
- Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
- When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
- Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
- Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
- Euripides, Phoenix
- The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
- Euripides, Phrixus
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides, Phrixus
- Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
- Euripides, Rhesus, circa 435 B.C.
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