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- 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.
- When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. - Euripides, Temenidae
- Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
- Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
- But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
- Euripides, The Phoenician Women, 409 BC
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