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  • Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”
  • God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

  • No one who lives in error is free.

  • The God knows when to smile.

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

    "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.
  • There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

  • Action achieves more than words.

  • In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

    Euripides (1814). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.204
  • tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

    Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.196, Oxford University Press
  • Virtue proceeds through effort.

  • No one is happy all his life long.

  • What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

    Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.68, University of Chicago Press
  • To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

  • In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

  • What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

    Euripides (1942). “Euripides”
  • The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”
  • The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

    Iphigenia Aulidensis, l.1252 (translated by W S Merwin and G E Dimock Jr, 1978).
  • It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

    Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.206, University of Chicago Press
  • Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

  • If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

    Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.18, Courier Corporation
  • courage is the gift of character

    Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”
  • He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  • Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

    "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.
  • I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

    Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.249, University of Chicago Press
  • Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

  • It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

  • Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

  • Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

  • If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

    Euripides (1971). “The Trojan women”
  • The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

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