Euripides

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."	Desires, Friends, Knowledge
"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness."	Excellence, Happiness, Joy
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."	Men
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."	Age
"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."	Age, Character, Men
"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."	Change, Happiness, Joy
"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."	Age, Courage, Men
"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."	Age
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."	Miscellaneous
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."	Excellence, Knowledge, Life
"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."	Sin
"Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave."	Freedom, Liberty
"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it."	Military, War
"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Ambition, Darkness, Desires
"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."	Love, Time
"A bad beginning makes a bad ending."	Beginnings, Evil, Good
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	Age, Courage, History
"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."	Time
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends."	Change, Friends, Time
"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help."	Friends, Help
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Ability	Age	Ambition
Argument	Beginnings	Change
Character	Conflict	Courage
Darkness	Death	Desires
Dreams	Effort	Evil
Excellence	Freedom	Friends
Good	Happiness	Help
History	Intelligence	Joy
Knowledge	Leadership	Liberty
Lies	Life	Light
Love	Men	Military
Miscellaneous	Money	Power
Sin	Sleeping	Time
Virtue	Wants	War
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