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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Euripides

[Greek]—He is the best diviner who conjectures well.

[Greek]—I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should.

[Greek]—My tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn.

[Greek]—There is always a pleasure in variety.

[Greek]—What is natural is never shameful.

[Greek]—Where there is no longer any wine there is no love.

Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He who imputes ill to them makes them none.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event.

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home.

The language of truth is simple.

The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.