Euripides

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.

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Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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

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Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.

Euripides

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

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Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

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Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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