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“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

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

Euripidés The Bacchae

Source: The Bacchae

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

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

Euripidés Alcestis

Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 783-4

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

Euripidés Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 721

“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.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

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

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

“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”

“Prosperity is full of friends.”

“Authority is never without hate.”

Ion (c. 421-408 BC) as translated by Ronald F. Willetts

“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”

“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.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“She sings a dark destructive song.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea

“I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”

Euripidés Electra

Electra (413 BC)

“Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise.”

Unidentified Plays, Fragment 977
Variant translation: Silence is true wisdom's best reply. (See Discussion page for sourcing information)

“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”

Euripidés Antiope

Antiope, Frag. 204

“In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”

Euripidés Hippolytus

Variant translations: Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.
Second thoughts are ever wiser.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Source: Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 435, as translated by David Grene