Euripides Quotes
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
[Friendship]
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For a silence and a chaste reserve is genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned among the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.
[Success]
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Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
[Happiness]
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Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
[Security]
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He is not a lover who does not love forever.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
[Acceptance]
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
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I care for riches, to make gifts
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
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I loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
[Friendship]
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I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.
[Friendship]
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
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