This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.
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More Euripides Quotes
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
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Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.
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It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
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Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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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.
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Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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