Euripidés: Man

Euripidés was ancient Athenian playwright. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“Account no man happy till he dies.”

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Sophocles in Oedipus Rex
Variant in Herodotus 1.32: Count no man happy until he is dead.
Misattributed

“Man's most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

Euripidés Helen

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides II: Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women. Ion. Rhesus. The suppliant women by David Grene, Richmond Alexander Lattimore (eds.), Modern Library, 1963, p. 73

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

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Phœnix Frag. 809

“The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.”

Euripidés Medea

Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 618

“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)

“I think,
Some shrewd man first, a man in judgment wise,
Found for mortals the fear of gods,
Thereby to frighten the wicked should they
Even act or speak or scheme in secret.”

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Sisyphus, as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/302/critias.htm <br class="br">Variant translation: He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

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

Euripidés Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 114

“Naught is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are in the first place no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end.”

Euripidés The Suppliants

Suppliants (tr. Edward P. Coleridge)

“p>Helen: What happened in my heart, to make me leave my home
And my own land, to follow where a stranger led?
Rail at the goddess; be more resolute than Zeus,
Who holds power over all other divinities
But is himself the slave of love. Show Aphrodite
Your indignation; me, pardon and sympathy.Hecabe: No; Paris was an extremely handsome man – one look,
And your appetite became your Aphrodite. Why,
Men's lawless lusts are all called love – it's a confusion
Easily made.”

Euripidés The Trojan Women

Troades (c. 415 BC), lines 946–950 and 987–990 (tr. Philip Vellacott)

“Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.”

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Bacchæ l. 1150.

“Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.”

Euripidés Antigone

Antigone, Frag 164

“Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.”

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Protesilaus Frag. 656