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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

em Medea
love hate revenge incurable retaliation wounds

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

em Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
love bitterness anger

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

inspirational

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

em Helen
god

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

wisdom

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

death wisdom profound philosophical

Leave no stone unturned.

wisdom

The good and wise lead quite lives

wisdom

Cleverness is not wisdom.

em The Bacchae
wisdom cleverness

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

happiness

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

em Medea
life happiness people logic human happy folly masters being rich lives luck shadow luckier lucky

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

em Trojan women: The Trojan women by Euripedes, and Helen, and Orestes by Ritsos
poetry philosophical

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

em Hippolytus
inspirational science

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

friendship

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

war

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

em The Phoenician Women
freedom freedom-of-speech speaking-out

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

em Orestes
evil seduction power deceit deception tyranny elections government falsehood false-promises administration

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

em Medea
love passion soul betrayal sincerity trauma

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

em Medea
love passion soul betrayal sincerity trauma

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

em Medea
love passion soul betrayal sincerity trauma

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

em Suppliant Women
joy freedom slavery

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

em Medea
feminism patriarchal-society greek-tragedy

or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours

em Medea
poetry feminism

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

em Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
strength

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

loss grief mourning tragedy dream bereavement shadow greek

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

em Medea
life love loss anger grieve

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

grief

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

em Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
men gold good bad medea

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

em The Bacchae
reason understanding rationality sense stupidity foolishness

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

em Medea
wicked morality guilt girl-power medea

Your very silence shows you agree.

silence

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

love lovers forever

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

em The Children of Herakles
judgment justice dissent fairness disagreements impartiality due-process

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

humor common-sense philosophical

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

em Medea
oath religious

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

revenge witchcraft hecate

The wisest men follow their own direction.

wise

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

em The Trojan Women
hatred greek modern

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

learn question answer

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

em Hippolytus
life virtue

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

virtue

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

em Suppliant Women
love father daughter

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

em Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
sexism

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

acceptance

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

acceptance

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

action

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

days boring

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

caution

All is change all yields its place and goes.

change

Cleverness is not wisdom.

cleverness

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

commitment

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

concentration

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

courage

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

courage

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

courage

The coward despairs.

courage

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

death dying

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

demagogues

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

days difficult

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

enemies

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

events

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

forgiveness

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

forgiveness

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

friends family

It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

friends money

Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.

friends

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

friendship

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

friendship

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

friendship

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

friendship

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

god

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

goodness giving

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

happiness

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

happiness

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

No one is happy all his life long.

happy

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

hatred

Noble fathers have noble children.

heredity

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

sapiens homo

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

hope

Men are men they needs must err.

mistakes blunders

Money is the wise man's religion.

money

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

diamonds pressure

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

day one

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

day one

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

day one

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

side

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

side

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

perseverance

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

positive

No one is happy all his life long.

expectations realistic

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

recognize maximize

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

recognize maximize

Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.

recognize maximize

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

right

The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.

right

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

security

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

success

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

success

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

sympathy

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

future

Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.

present

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

wisdom

There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

women

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

worthy victories

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

em Medea
play greek-tragedy medea

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

em Medea
play tutor greek-tragedy

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

em Medea
play tutor greek-tragedy

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

em Medea
play nurse greek-tragedy

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

em Medea
play greek-tragedy chorus

In childbirth grief begins.

em Medea
play greek-tragedy chorus

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

em Medea
play nurse greek-tragedy

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