Pride From Euripides Quotes & Sayings

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. — Euripides

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God. — David Malet Armstrong

Since it seems your marking your territory , why don't you go ahead and pee on her while you're at it ? " ~ Cal — Nicole Reed

He could not consent to allow himself to be insulted, still less to allow himself to be treated as a rag, and, above all, to allow a thoroughly vicious man to treat him so. No quarrelling, however, no quarrelling! Possibly if some one wanted, if some one, for instance, actually insisted on turning Mr. Golyadkin into a rag, he might have done so, might have done so without opposition or punishment (Mr. Golyadkin was himself conscious of this at times), and he would have been a rag and not Golyadkin - yes, a nasty, filthy rag; but that rag would not have been a simple rag, it would have been a rag possessed of dignity, it would have been a rag possessed of feelings and sentiments, even though dignity was defenceless and feelings could not assert themselves, and lay hidden deep down in the filthy folds of the rag, still the feelings there ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If one considers the characters in the plays of Shakespeare, in the poems of the Roman poet Ovid, in the Greek tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, and even in the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt, they can be recognized in our daily lives. Their actions were driven by the same motives as ours - ambition, love, pride, fear, anger, sympathy, and fun. — John H. Vanston

Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt. — I.M. Savage

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. — Euripides

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success. — Michael Feldman

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party. — Tony Campolo

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. — Nicholas Haslam

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. — Epicurus

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men. — Edith Hamilton

Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. — Sara Coleridge

Everything that is observed in the physical world has as its source that which is invisible. This means we must surrender to the Spirit and to the invisible part of ourselves. Then learning to manifest is really nothing more than learning to manifest another aspect of ourselves. — Wayne Dyer