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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.


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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
PROVERB Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
ANON. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
ANONYMOUS Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war n...
JOHN BOYD ORR For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
JOHN DRYDEN An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
JEAN-MARIE LE PEN Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would d...
CHARLES AUSTIN BEARD All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with ...
CHARLES A. BEARD The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would d...
CHARLES A. BEARD Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
OVID The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - He first individualizes
HENRIK IBSEN The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSEN So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is a...
ROLAND ALLEN God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and thi...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre a...
DAVID GRANN He spoils you when he makes those funs (throws) over to first. He doesn't have that gun anymore.
JACK MCKEON A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.
CHARLIE BYRD No matter how mad he makes you, don't do that,
BETH WILKINSON We get mad at him when he makes us run.
CORY BOONE He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA if a philosopher wishes to be useful to human society, he must announce a God.
VOLTAIRE In time comes he whom God sends.
GEORGE HERBERT God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His ki...
CRISS JAMI He is the freeman whom the truth makes free.
WILLIAM COWPER God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness
SUNDAY ADELAJA God makes Man, His first priority.
But, Man makes God his last resort.
CEASAR RODRIGUEZ, JR. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is ...
JAMES C. DOBSON He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send s...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God tho...
WILLIAM AMES Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.
GREEK PROVERB Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 To preach the Gospel requires that the ...
ROLAND ALLEN There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,...
C.S. LEWIS Or He makes them of both sorts, male and female; and He makes whom He pleases barren; surely He is t...
QURAN Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can sa...
ABRAHAM CLARK The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the so...
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it,...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
AMERICAN PROVERB Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but that we become whom we e...
O ANNA NIEMUS First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and ...
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology
JAY LENO makes me so mad.
OPRAH WINFREY There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God...
C.S. LEWIS There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom G...
C. S. LEWIS There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those t...
C. S. LEWIS What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
T. B. JOSHUA God Makes No Mistakes He Makes Divine Executive Decisions
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER It makes me extremely mad. This is just a building, but it's the building where you come to worship ...
CINDY JOLLEY It makes me so mad. It makes me mad. This should not have happened. This should not have happened.
OPRAH WINFREY Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.
BRYAN BATT If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
JAY LENO He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
WILLIAM COWPER If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his...
JOHN THE APOSTLE Actually, that's when I feel better. Giving up those two runs in the first got me mad.
GILBERT DIAZ He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.
ELIZABETH D. MARIE Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be th...
JAY LENO I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
THOMAS JEFFERSON God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destr...
EDWIN LOUIS COLE If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.
CHERYL STRAYED It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the e...
J. C. RYLE who wishes to fight must first count the cost
SUN TZU The Truest of the True is pervading everywhere; He instructs those with whom He is pleased.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.
STACY SCHIFF If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
R. D. LAING God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
STEPHEN KING God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
MATT CHANDLER If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
JOHN MILTON What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
LAINI TAYLOR If the weapons are there and we know they're there, then my God, let's go get the weapons and destro...
CHARLIE RANGEL None of you believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
ANONYMOUS 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us rig...
MARTIN LUTHER He praises who wishes to sell.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ
CLAUDE ADRIEN HELVETIUS You're Nobody but with God, He makes you Somebody.
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and ...
WILLIAM BASSE (BAS) The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures a...
JOSEPH ADDISON When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
ROBERT SOUTHEY Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
ROBERT SOUTHEY God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
ALPHONSUS LIGUORI We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.
VIKRANT PARSAI One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship.
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More Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES