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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Euripides?
→ We only part to meet again.
→ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
→ Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
→ Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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Pick the quote attributed to Euripides.
→ He is not a lover who does not love forever.
→ When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
→ Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
→ What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Select the quotation attributed to Euripides.
→ As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
→ The wisest men follow their own direction.
→ No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
→ I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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One of these may be attributed to Euripides. Which one?
→ Cleverness is not wisdom.
→ Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
→ Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
→ Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Which one of these belongs to Euripides?
→ The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
→ Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
→ Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
→ In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Euripides?
→ Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
→ To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
→ The difficult is that which can be done at once and the impossible is that which takes a little longer.
→ Nothing endures but change.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Euripides.
→ The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
→ False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
→ Leave no stone unturned.
→ Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Euripides. Which one?
→ I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
→ Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
→ I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
→ Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Euripides?
→ If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
→ 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.
→ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
→ You give your cheeks a rosy stain, With washes die your hair, but paint and washes both are vain to give a youthful air.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Euripides.
→ A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
→ Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
→ For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
→ Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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Looks like Euripides is the author of one of these.
→ Procrastination is the thief of time.
→ There is one advantage in a plurality of wifes; they fight each other, instead of their husbands.
→ There is no remedy for love but to love more.
→ One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Euripides.
→ We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
→ Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
→ If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
→ Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Which one should be attributed to Euripides?
→ When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
→ Don’t allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
→ The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
→ Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Euripides?
→ My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
→ Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
→ He who stops being better stops being good.
→ Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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