Euripedes
- There is something in the pang of change
More than the heart can bear,
Unhappiness remembering happiness.
(topic: change)
- This is courage in a man:
to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
(topic: courage)
- What greater pain could mortals have than this:
To see their children dead before their eyes?
(topic: death)
- Lucky that man
whose children make his happiness in life
and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
(topic: fathers)
- Real friendship is shown in times of trouble;
prosperity is full of friends.
(topic: friendship)
- Of mortals there is no one who is happy.
If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
(topic: happiness)
- Let my heart be wise.
It is the gods' best gift.
(topic: heart)
- Love must not touch the marrow of the soul.
Our affections must be breakable chains that we
can cast them off or tighten them.
(topic: love)
- Fortune always will confer an aura
Of worth, unworthily; and in this world
The lucky person passes for a genius
(topic: luck)
- In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
(topic: misfortune)
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