More from Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesEuripides All men know their children mean more than life.
EuripidesEuripides Common sense is the best prophet.
EuripidesEuripides God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
EuripidesEuripides Your very silence shows you agree.
EuripidesEuripides Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EuripidesEuripides 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.
EuripidesEuripides A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EuripidesEuripides The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EuripidesEuripides The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
EuripidesEuripides The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EuripidesEuripides There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
EuripidesEuripides The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EuripidesEuripides The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
EuripidesEuripides The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EuripidesEuripides There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
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Your faith rests on the future of yourself and others as individuals, mine in the future and fate of our successors.
Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?
Kazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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