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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. By Euripides Mob Great State Honeyed Words

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. By Euripides Garnering Life Day Man Happiest

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never. By Euripides Shadow Logic Folly Happy Time

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. By Euripides Arm Heart Fearful Inevitable Thing

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words. By Euripides Wicked Man Eloquent Guilty Brass

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. By Euripides Hate Friends Late

Why long for death's marriage bedwhich human beings all shun?Death comes soon enoughand brings and end to everything. By Euripides Death Shun Long Marriage Bedwhich

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind.The first is Demeter, the Goddess.She is the Earth or any name you wish to call her and she sustains humanity with solid food.Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wineand the blessings of life's flowing juices.His blood, the blood of the grape,lightens the burden of our mortal misery.Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour outto offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed. By Euripides Blood God Gods Demeter Dionysus

My love for youwas greater than my wisdom. By Euripides Wisdom Love Youwas Greater

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. By Euripides Men Man Hate Haughty Heart

Friends show their love in times of trouble. By Euripides Friends Trouble Show Love Times

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. By Euripides Life Acknowledge Safest Thing Balance

O Dionysus, we feel you near,stirring like molten lavaunder the ravaged earth,flowing from the wounds of your treesin tears of sap,screaming with the rageof your hunted beasts. By Euripides Dionysus Beasts Feel Nearstirring Molten

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same. By Euripides Cheated Wife Husband Feels

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ... By Euripides Love Soul Touch Marrow Affections

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order. By Euripides God Complex Predict Hard Order

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best. By Euripides Humility Win Wisest Sense Reverence

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. By Euripides Prospering Foundation Time Mortal Fool

For strangely graven Is the orb of life, that one and another In gold and power may outpass his brother. And men in their millions float and flowAnd seethe with a million hopes as leaven; And they win their Will, or they miss their Will, And the hopes are dead or are pined for still; But whoe'er can know, As the long days go,That To Live is happy, hath found his Heaven! By Euripides Life Brother Strangely Graven Orb

Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain. By Euripides Tutor Nurse Friends Found Treacherous

Our ancestors ... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. By Euripides Ancestors Purged Banishment Death Revenge

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by. By Euripides Justice Alive Light Men Blame

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. By Euripides Anger Respect Exceeding Limits Fear

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave. By Euripides Apollo Happiness Hopes Found Dear

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. By Euripides Passive Kind Dangerous Enemies Loyal

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. By Euripides Livid Song Long Souls Compose

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief By Euripides Friend Grief Loathe Gratitude Grows

Gods often contradictour fondest expectations.What we anticipatedoes not come to pass.What we don't expectsome god finds a way to make it happen.So with this story By Euripides Story Contradictour Fondest Expectationswhat Anticipatedoes

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment. By Euripides Life Short Hand Pursue Great

The bold are helpless without cleverness. By Euripides Cleverness Bold Helpless

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman. By Euripides Terrible Sea Fire Things Woman

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement. By Euripides Shipwreck Pondered Life Warrant Virtue

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. By Euripides Necessity Base Thing Man Struggle

Account no man happy till he dies. By Euripides Account Dies Man Happy Till

Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth Time's unhasting stride, Following, following, him whose eyes Look not to Heaven. For all is vain, The pulse of the heart, the plot of the brain, That striveth beyond the laws that live. And is thy Faith so much to give, Is it so hard a thing to see, That the Spirit of God, whate'er it be, The Law that abides and changes not, ages long, The Eternal and Nature-born - these things be strong? By Euripides God Dreams Man Making Things

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. By Euripides Stronger Hate Lover Incurable Love

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. By Euripides Daughter Father Growing Dearer

Action achieves more than words. By Euripides Action Words Achieves

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. By Euripides Woman Matter Man Tongue Sharptempered

This town must learn,even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand reveal myself to mortals as a God,the son of God. By Euripides God Godthe Town Learneven Coststo

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. By Euripides Mistakes Young Correct

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. By Euripides Hopeless Hope

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. By Euripides Word Console Despondent Person Deeds

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid. By Euripides God Thyself Aid Call Worker

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. By Euripides Light Lightly Rest Earth

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will. By Euripides Storms Fury Flame Bursts Unquenchable

Black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue By Euripides Black Virtue Evil Outlined Clearest

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future. By Euripides Feel Wait Future

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed. By Euripides Friends Method Hard Choose Bed

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. By Euripides Wife Newcome Stepmother Hates Children

Better a serpent than a stepmother! By Euripides Stepmother Serpent

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right. By Euripides Oaths Rule Trust Understand Gods

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. By Euripides Missing Care Minds Benefit Beauty

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard. By Euripides Hard Work Achieve Happiness Shame

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. By Euripides Foe Perish Owes Sweet Pay

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. By Euripides Times Sooner War Suffer Childbirth

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. By Euripides Drink Enjoy Call Chance Life

So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature. By Euripides Nature Lawful Centuries Cost Comprehend

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. By Euripides Tomorrow Confidently Living

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. By Euripides Defenseless Fear Dreads Steel Love

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. By Euripides Riches Friends Plenty Man Care

It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose. By Euripides Deceitful Loose Thoughts Men Pledges

It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live. By Euripides Dead Luxury Makes Difference Buried

She sings a dark destructive song. By Euripides Song Sings Dark Destructive

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence. By Euripides Land Youth Danger Spirit Violence

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. By Euripides Worse True Evil Bear Burden

The best of seers is he who guesses well. By Euripides Seers Guesses

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers By Euripides Sound Judgement Seers Discernment

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone. By Euripides Day Lives Run Sweetly Give

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. By Euripides Human Stop Storm Great End

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. By Euripides Life Grieve Husband Lost Wastes

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. By Euripides Impudence Diseases Worst Human

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. By Euripides Happy Daughter Child Care Place

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtueand there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.. By Euripides Good Fulfillment Laziness Life Long

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure. By Euripides Tongue Fools Pain Brash Unbridled

Come, God Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus burst into life, burstinto being, be a mighty bull,a hundred-headed snake,a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus! By Euripides God Bromius Dionysus Bacchus Life

Life is short, yet sweet. By Euripides Life Short Sweet

God in heaven has dominionOver so many events.He can frustrate what seems inevitable,And bring to pass the thing that you least expect. By Euripides God Expect Heaven Dominionover Eventshe

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior. By Euripides Superior Wise Withhold Heart Mind

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend. By Euripides End Friend Die Joy Man

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate. By Euripides War God Hates Hesitate

He who believes needs no explanation. By Euripides Explanation

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness. By Euripides Excess Honor Worthiness Love Brings

The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul. By Euripides Love Friends Soul Man Prefer

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it. By Euripides Hecate Work Home Goddess Worship

I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do. By Euripides Commit Anger Understand Dreadful Acti

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. By Euripides Fury Intend Stronger Afterthoughts Brings

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself. By Euripides Serpents Woman Medicines Medicine Gods

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. By Euripides Slow Gods Moves

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. By Euripides Unhappiness Bear Happiness Pang Change

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes? By Euripides God Claims Limit Opposite Vicissitudes

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. By Euripides Love

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. By Euripides Destroy Mad Gods Make

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away. By Euripides Visions Greater Riches Joy Dreams

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. By Euripides Pay Learn Die Debt

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? By Euripides Eyes Greater Pain Mortals Children

In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love By Euripides Grief Weep Mother Children Love

Prepare yourselvesfor the roaring voice of the God of Joy! By Euripides Joy God Prepare Yourselvesfor Roaring

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are? By Euripides Creatures Bred Exquisitely Purposefully Mistreatment

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking. By Euripides Idiot Thinking Man Jolly Drinking

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. By Euripides Real Trouble Prosperity Friends Friendship

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young. By Euripides Time Young Cure Grief

Or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours By Euripides Sung Songin Response Male Sex

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. By Euripides Life Happiness Greatness Pride Trust

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. By Euripides Courage Speak Taught Child

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful. By Euripides Bed Folly Women Measure Happiness

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform. By Euripides Free Necessity Man Earth Slaves

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. By Euripides Life Friend Blessing Prudent

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. By Euripides Daughter Sons Pitch Fondness Father

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women. By Euripides Plentiful Wife Women Rare Spoil

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. By Euripides Danger Eyes Gleams Sunshine Brave

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person." By Euripides Character Person Stamp Good Repute

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily. By Euripides Mankind Easily Led Gods Err

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be. By Euripides Happy Earth Man Lot Secrets

We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate. By Euripides Fire Sky Catches Hate Feeds

Wine is an escape from grief,a slip into sleep,a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.What better cure for being human? By Euripides Wine Human Escape Griefa Slip

It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS By Euripides Existed Men Children Women Chorus

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives. By Euripides Children Spring Lives Sweet Buds

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. By Euripides Prosperity Friends Adversity Good Show

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward. By Euripides Hand Runs Wild Worse Fire

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers. By Euripides Skill Woman Women Deeds Contrivers

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice. By Euripides Justice Gods Longer Injustice Prevail

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. By Euripides Sense Wit Prophet Common Native

No one who lives in error is free. By Euripides Free Lives Error

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. By Euripides Time Explain Talker Speaks Questioning

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. By Euripides Slight Aiming

He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. By Euripides Force Life Liberating Sleep Blood

Where there is no wine there is no love. By Euripides Love Wine

AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice. By Euripides Agamemnon Thy Justice Children Wife

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. By Euripides Illgotten Stable Wealth

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. By Euripides Silver Coin Virtue World Gold

What heavenly power lends an earTo a breaker of oaths, a deceiver? By Euripides Oaths Deceiver Heavenly Power Lends

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. By Euripides Destiny Man Glories Luck Overthrown

Mankind ... possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. By Euripides Man Demeter Mankind Gift Earth

Receive the god into your kingdom pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance! By Euripides Receive Libations Cover Ivy Join

Oh, in all things but this,I know how full of fears a woman is,And faint at need, and shrinking from the lightOf battle: but once spoil her of her rightIn man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well,No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell. By Euripides Battle Love Moves Hell Things

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. By Euripides Power Hand Hold Perishes Purchase

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave. By Euripides Slave Dares Speak Free Thought

Money is the wise man's religion. By Euripides Money Religion Wise Man

I have found power in the mysteries of thought. By Euripides Thought Found Power Mysteries

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. By Euripides Surely Spell Heal Men Wounds

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. By Euripides Slavery Thought Speak

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour By Euripides Hate Cup Pour Bottomless

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive By Euripides Alive Creatures Feel Thinkwe Women

Sorrow is longwhen love has vanished underground. By Euripides Sorrow Underground Longwhen Love Vanished

O Dionysus, Son of God,do you see our sufferings?Do you see your faithfulin helpless agony before the oppressor?O Lord, come down from Olympus,shake your golden thyrsusand stifle the murderer's insolent fury. By Euripides Dionysus Son Lord Goddo Olympusshake

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. By Euripides Dissension Side Case Dare Judge

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. By Euripides Vengeance Man Imperceptibly Placing Bad

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. By Euripides Father Daughter Sweet Boys Spirited

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. By Euripides Persevere Trusting Man Hopes Courage

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment. By Euripides Incurred Wealth Punishment Anger Gods

Oh, say, how call ye this,To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kissBetrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:'Tis but of all man's inward sicknessesThe vilest, that he knoweth not of shameNor pity! Yet I praise him that he came ... To me it shall bring comfort, once to clearMy heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear. By Euripides Face Smile Kissbetrayed Call Thisto

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck. By Euripides Doth Gods Led Kill Day

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. By Euripides God Thing Heart Care Great

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore. By Euripides Arrangement Whore Refusing Petition Divorce

I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities. By Euripides Belly Greatest Deities Sacrifice God

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. By Euripides Remember Bacchic Woman Amount Reveling

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. By Euripides Lies Safety

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. By Euripides Back Shadow Dream

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. By Euripides Mortal Hard Fate

Old loves are dropped when new ones come By Euripides Loves Dropped

It's human; we all put self interest first. By Euripides Human Put Interest

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. By Euripides Roll Stop Grief Avalanche Starts

In childbirth grief begins. By Euripides Begins Childbirth Grief

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. By Euripides Friendship Joys Sorrows Doubles Divides

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. By Euripides Pass Love Makes Time

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. By Euripides Man Wife Possession Sympathetic

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? By Euripides Live Death Knoweth Die Called

Cleverness is not wisdom. By Euripides Cleverness Wisdom

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them. By Euripides Knowledge Wisdom Cleverness Death Mad

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches ... By Euripides Sparta Home Daughters Matches Mingle

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears. By Euripides Tears Sad Find Sweetness

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong? By Euripides Wrong Soul Bitten

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! By Euripides Trebly Laid Glows Wife Oft

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. By Euripides Interpreting Case Sick Medicine Carries

To generous souls every task is noble. By Euripides Noble Generous Souls Task

O Zeus, why did you give men certain waysto recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless. By Euripides Zeus Gold Mark Body Worthless

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house. By Euripides Fair Lady Light Dear Sea

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. By Euripides Whoso Youth Loses Future Neglects

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ... By Euripides God Man Permission

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge. By Euripides Knowledge Judge Sight

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. By Euripides Clean Impurity Hands Heart

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. By Euripides Wise Event Succeeded Reckoned Minds

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. By Euripides Cleverness Wisdom Days Mortal Thoughts

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine. By Euripides Mine Open Honest Mind Friend

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts? By Euripides Immortals Dead Thunderbolts Waiting Run

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. By Euripides Greatness People Brings Profit God

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. By Euripides Drinking Mad Man Rejoice Breasts

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays. By Euripides Todays Tomorrows Gods Intend

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. By Euripides Qualities Girl Husband Beauty Fine

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. By Euripides Hateful Wife Children Viper

[Diontsos].Swoony type,long hair, bedroom eyes,cheeks like wine. By Euripides Diontsos Swoony Hair Bedroom Wine

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments. By Euripides Money Arguments Persuasive Logical

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. By Euripides Silence Reply True Wisdom

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters. By Euripides Lucky Disasters Man Successful Children

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. By Euripides Children Gods Visit Sins Fathers

To the worker, God himself lends aid. By Euripides God Worker Aid Lends

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts. By Euripides Thoughts Slave Speak

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. By Euripides Courteous Wife Wise Man House

Rashness in a leader causes failure; the sailor of a ship is calm, wise at the proper time. Yes, and forethought: this too is bravery. By Euripides Rashness Failure Calm Wise Time

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought. By Euripides Wise Man Act Mind Bravery

When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them. By Euripides Perish Good Men Goodness Lives

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. By Euripides Faces Authority Accustomed

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. By Euripides Tongue Opinion Rhetoric Merits Punishment

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. By Euripides Poor Man Stomach Full Makes

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend. By Euripides Friend Stillest Tongue Truest

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise. By Euripides Alas Shape Ancient Noise Wits

Many a maiden,With white feet dancing light as air,Made happy music through the gloom. By Euripides Gloom Maidenwith White Feet Dancing

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly. By Euripides Ugly Wise Man Part Leave

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. By Euripides Pay Pleasure Special Attention Agony

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. By Euripides Luckier Neighbor Happy

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. By Euripides Blessedness Mortal Attains Luckier Wealth

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be. By Euripides Wealth Happy Mortals Man Pour

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. By Euripides Relatives Loyal Friend Worth Ten

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? By Euripides Holding Exist Deceive Lies World

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. By Euripides Lucky Grief Hopes Man Children

The mind of a queenIs a thing to fear. A queen is usedTo giving commands, not obeying them;And her rage once roused is hard to appease. By Euripides Fear Mind Queenis Thing Commands

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. By Euripides Wrong Powerotherwise Virtue Pursuing

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. By Euripides Love Fiercest Anger Incurableis Rages

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. By Euripides Fate Man Misery Finds Share

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough. By Euripides Man Heaven Friends

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. By Euripides Hate Anger Worse Slower Abate

death is the only water to wash away this dirt By Euripides Death Dirt Water Wash

No one who goes against her can win. By Euripides Win

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. By Euripides Zeus Good Men Clear Testing

no man,is ever happy, no one. By Euripides Happy Manis

There be many shapes of mystery; And many things God brings to be, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought. So hath it fallen here. By Euripides Past God Mystery Fear Shapes

What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great? To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait; To hold a hand uplifted over Hate;And shall not Loveliness be loved for ever? By Euripides Wisdom God Hate Grace Great

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. By Euripides Drunk Wise Man Stays Home

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. By Euripides Great Work Reward Added Makes

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! By Euripides Lady Nobility Thine Nature Thy

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) By Euripides Upwards Turvy Fountains Sacred Rivers

Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture? By Euripides Dionysus Wilt Venture Thou Led

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends. By Euripides Friends Adverse Hours Friendship Good

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything. By Euripides Good Life Night

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. By Euripides Poison Men Love Simple Strong

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care. By Euripides Care Wretched Child Return Parents

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife. By Euripides Strife Men Fair Wise Debaters

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. By Euripides Mobs Children Subject Fury Emotions

The wavering mind is but a base possession. By Euripides Possession Wavering Mind Base

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. By Euripides Rabble Wise Fellow Worthless Charms

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. By Euripides Luck Sight Enemy

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death. By Euripides Tears Death Good Meeting Man

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man. By Euripides Statement Man Properly Summarize Ideas

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging. By Euripides Voyaging Prosperity Find Men

You women are all the same, if bed's all right,You think everything else can go to the wind.But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights,Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose. By Euripides Fair Loose Women Bed Rightyou

Leave no stone unturned. By Euripides Leave Unturned Stone

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. By Euripides Pain Marriage Joy

They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands! By Euripides Herds Hands Attack Woman Pull

Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart. By Euripides Free Fortune Heart World Single

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. By Euripides Ridden Menace Demagogues Live Envy

Delusive hope still points to distant good. By Euripides Delusive Good Hope Points Distant

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. By Euripides Dishonor Dead Trouble

Let mortal man keep to his ownMortality, and not expect too much. By Euripides Ownmortality Mortal Man Expect

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. By Euripides Undoing Glittering Hope Immemorial Beckons

God helps him who strives hard. By Euripides God Hard Strives

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. By Euripides Fate Wise Men Heaven Yields

He is not a lover who does not love forever. By Euripides Forever Lover Love

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. By Euripides Difficulty Surely Divine Power Moves

Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now By Euripides Guilt Horrible Endure Laughter Enemies

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. By Euripides Time Youth Rich Poor

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred. By Euripides Anger Difficult Cure Hatred Strange

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. By Euripides Happy Harbor Man Sea Escapes

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. By Euripides Intelligence Pay High Price Wisdom

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement. By Euripides Judgement Success Gain Reputation

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. By Euripides Danger Coward Turns Brave Man

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. By Euripides Short Brings Joy Guilty Pleasure

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death. By Euripides Death Meanest Life Glorious

The lucky person passes for a genius. By Euripides Genius Lucky Person Passes

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. By Euripides Men Life Honor Property Greatest

Women don't like violence,But when their husbands desert them, that is different. By Euripides Women Violencebut Husbands Desert

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. By Euripides Prefer Friend Good Man Ignorant

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. By Euripides High Heart Grief Honors Sweet

Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind itTo thy breast, and make thee deadTo thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?When the hand knows what it dares,When thine eyes look into theirs,Shalt thou keep by tears unblindedThy dividing of the slain?These be deeds Not for thee:These be things that cannot be! By Euripides Thou Thy Thee Thine Hast

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. By Euripides Silence Praise House Chaste Reserve

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. By Euripides Necessity Harsh Fate Reprieve

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort? By Euripides Knowledge Struggle Effort Make Hard

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. By Euripides Give Achievement Wise Man Honest

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. By Euripides Evil Prosper Men Nature

The God knows when to smile. By Euripides God Smile

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night By Euripides Words Night Shape Dreams

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all By Euripides Speak Wisdom Fool Sense

Go home to your wife. Go bury her. By Euripides Wife Home Bury

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. By Euripides Men Hands Vicious Mob Story

Prosperity is full of friends. By Euripides Prosperity Friends Full

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt. By Euripides Wrath Hurt Brings Mortal Men

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. By Euripides Bodies Place Devoid Mind Statues

Numbers are a fearful thing. By Euripides Numbers Thing Fearful

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. By Euripides Wisdom Goodness Kinds

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. By Euripides Wealth Steadfast Gold Stays Moment

I care for riches, to make gifts. By Euripides Riches Gifts Care Make

A change is always nice. By Euripides Nice Change

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. By Euripides Fortune Judgment Good

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate. By Euripides Hate World Fierce Stubborn Learned

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. By Euripides Experience Travel Education

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind. By Euripides Measures Command Mankind Home State

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. By Euripides Happiness Stay God Sails Batters

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. By Euripides Talk Foolish Sense Fool Calls

Only a madman would give good for evil By Euripides Evil Madman Give Good

One moment, one short moment - and forever sorrow. By Euripides Moment Sorrow Short Forever

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. By Euripides Thoughts World

How dark are all the ways of god to man! By Euripides Man Dark God

Women's love is for their men, not for their children. By Euripides Women Men Children Love

Death will be my wedding, children and glory. By Euripides Death Wedding Children Glory

Much effort, much prosperity. By Euripides Effort Prosperity

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. By Euripides Reason Terror Wrestle Overthrow

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. By Euripides Reviews Moan Woe Left Hours

Since I am wise, some people envy me,some think I'm idle, some the opposite,and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise. By Euripides Wise Idle Threatened People Envy

The life of men is painful. By Euripides Painful Life Men

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all. By Euripides Labors Brave Endure Cowardly Worth

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling. By Euripides Good Dissevered Commingling Bad

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart. By Euripides Rightness Heart Judgment Bitterness

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. By Euripides Oftener Uncontrollable Tempers Make Difficult

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore By Euripides Twas Tongue Swore Soul

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares. By Euripides Shares Prophet Skill Sort Man

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. By Euripides Land Greater Grief Loss Native

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. By Euripides Thing Time Lost Sweet Revisit

Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be. By Euripides Great Vile King Dreams Grandeur

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon. By Euripides Filth Noon Find Height

Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart! By Euripides Heart Feel Teeth

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. By Euripides Wisdom Success Reputation

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. By Euripides Wise Heart Gift Gods

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. By Euripides Ignorance Gain Misfortunes Clear

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. By Euripides Liberty Men Public Free True

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God. By Euripides God Human Excellence Works Consent

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! By Euripides Pray Happiness Gods Envy

God gives each his due at the time allotted. By Euripides God Allotted Due Time

There is the sky, which is all men's together. By Euripides Sky Men

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. By Euripides Man Benefit Gifts Bad

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met. By Euripides Met Good Earth Recognize

A woman should always stand by a woman. By Euripides Woman Stand

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. By Euripides City Requisite Happiness Man Born

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. By Euripides Man Valuable Trait Judicious Sense

No one is happy all his life long. By Euripides Long Happy Life

For the weariest road that man may wendIs forth fromn the home of his father. By Euripides Father Weariest Road Man Wendis

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman. By Euripides Grow Woman Things Earth Bleed

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. By Euripides Mortal Friendships Level Souls Moderate

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. By Euripides Sufficiency Sense Men

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. By Euripides Chance Prudent Fights Side

O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart? By Euripides Zeus Man Gold Heart Hast

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved. By Euripides Loved Bitterness Compared People

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. By Euripides Forgive Son Err Men

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal. By Euripides Tyrant Place Common Man Keeping

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. By Euripides Woman Earth Ocean Produces Creature

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. By Euripides Waste Yesterday Tears Griefs

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps. By Euripides Misery Age Total Experience

A man who has been in danger,When he comes out of it forgets his fears,And sometimes he forgets his promises. By Euripides Forgets Promises Man Dangerwhen Fearsand

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are? By Euripides Delightful Forget

I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. By Euripides Necessity Found Stronger

Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us. By Euripides Power Slavery Alliance Conquest

Common sense is the best prophet. By Euripides Common Prophet Sense

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich. By Euripides Befalls Rich Appalling Disaster

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. By Euripides Wise Wisdom Learn

Too much zeal offends where indirection works. By Euripides Works Zeal Offends Indirection

The wife should yield in all things to her lord By Euripides Lord Wife Yield Things

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. By Euripides Fasting Knees Heaven Love Good

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. By Euripides Arguments Wise Man Chooses Sane

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. By Euripides Long Strength Gods End

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. By Euripides Time Posterity Babbler Put Discover

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. By Euripides Zeus Hates Busybodies

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. By Euripides Swore Unsworn Tongue Heart

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. By Euripides Today Eternity Tomorrow Drain

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. By Euripides Waste Griefs Fresh Tears

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. By Euripides Poverty Disease Evil Possesses Teaches

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. By Euripides Resistless Mighty Geometry Joined Art

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. By Euripides Gods Meaning Toil

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. By Euripides Ten Head Soldiers Wisely Led

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. By Euripides Slave Compelled Wrong Abused Bear

Noble fathers have noble children. By Euripides Children Noble Fathers

There is safety in numbers. By Euripides Numbers Safety

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. By Euripides Circumstances Rule Men

The good and wise lead quite lives By Euripides Lives Good Wise Lead

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier. By Euripides Die Glory Pain Dier

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters. By Euripides Lead Daughters Thoughts Childless Men

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches. By Euripides Corroding Corrupting Touches Vileness Human

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. By Euripides Woman Worse Evil Bad Produced

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. By Euripides World Women Send Trouble Remake

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. By Euripides Man Sends Courage Bear Unflinchingly

Authority is never without hate. By Euripides Authority Hate

The language of truth is simple. By Euripides Simple Language Truth

Never that is shall die. By Euripides Die

Whose sons would cling bold to the craggy heights of war By Euripides War Sons Cling Bold Craggy

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. By Euripides Thing Wrangle Free Tongue Make

Youth holds no society with grief. By Euripides Youth Grief Holds Society

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. By Euripides Wine Foe Hard Terrible Wrestle

Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way". By Euripides Ruthless Royalty Age Temper Live

In life, the worst disasters come from passion. By Euripides Life Passion Worst Disasters

Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life? By Euripides Men Call Life Deathand Death

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. By Euripides Good Praised Feel Disgust Commended

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. By Euripides Song Joy Brings Cheerfulness Wakes

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day. By Euripides Day Wealth Abides

Bear calamities with meekness. By Euripides Bear Meekness Calamities

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. By Euripides Bad Ending Beginning Makes

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. By Euripides Swore Unpledged Tongue Mind

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. By Euripides Fate Sorrow Stranger Cursed

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. By Euripides Law Power Cities Men Noble

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety. By Euripides Safety Good Holding

Love's all in all to women. By Euripides Love Women

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage? By Euripides Marriage Wrong Womanexcept

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much. By Euripides People Mad

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. By Euripides Pains Desire Love Hear Loved

Every man is like the company he wont to keep. By Euripides Man Company Wont

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool. By Euripides Fool Spirit Man Sticks Fate

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. By Euripides Safely Unknown Envy Man Passes

All men know their children mean more than life. By Euripides Life Men Children

A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man By Euripides Woman Man

All is change; all yields its place and goes. By Euripides Change Yields Place

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing. By Euripides Perfect Lacking God

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good. By Euripides Rich Good Man

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. By Euripides Men Thieves Day Honest Night

The variety of all things forms a pleasure. By Euripides Pleasure Variety Things Forms

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. By Euripides Sanity Thing Brings Pain Madness

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally. By Euripides Lives Surer Fortune Watcheth Oer

There is no evil as terrible as a woman. By Euripides Woman Evil Terrible

Dead men have no victory. By Euripides Dead Victory Men

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another. By Euripides God Men Choice Make Man

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love. By Euripides Worst Love Curable Hatred Superseded

Enough is abundance to the wise. By Euripides Wise Abundance

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. By Euripides Hand Plan Ventures Finishing

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. By Euripides Events Account Good Angry Happiest

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. By Euripides Fate Nobly Born Meet

The gift of a bad man can bring no good. By Euripides Good Gift Bad Man Bring

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments. By Euripides Arguments Lack Good

It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference. By Euripides Interference Die Feet Called Offensive

If the gods do evil then they are not gods. By Euripides Gods Evil

Wine enlivens the human soul. By Euripides Wine Soul Enlivens Human

My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God. By Euripides Holy God Hair Grow Long

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. By Euripides Results Slight Efforts Obtain Great

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness. By Euripides Ignorant Foolishness Words Wise

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. By Euripides Fortune Free Wealth Law Slave

Gods should not resemble men in their anger! By Euripides Gods Anger Resemble Men

Often a noble face hides filthy ways. By Euripides Noble Face Hides Filthy

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. By Euripides Friend Underground Worst Enemy

Time will bring healing. By Euripides Time Healing Bring

courage is the gift of character By Euripides Courage Character Gift

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory. By Euripides Timid Dare Weak Friend Ruthless

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say? By Euripides God Man

The unrighteous are never really fortunate. By Euripides Fortunate Unrighteous

BAKKHAI : Holinessis a word I love to hear,it sounds like wings to me,wings brushing the world, grazing my life. By Euripides Bakkhai Holinessis World Grazing Life

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. By Euripides God Destroy Angry Wishes Makes

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. By Euripides Fool Foolish Speaks Wisdom Sound

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths. By Euripides Misery Mouths End Unbridled

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. By Euripides Man Slave Sweet Light Heaven

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. By Euripides Good Home Woman Abroad

Do not consider painful what is good for you. By Euripides Painful Good

necessity breaks even the strong. By Euripides Necessity Strong Breaks

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind. By Euripides Mind Mistake Wisdom Opinion Rise

The wise with hope support the pains of life. By Euripides Life Wise Hope Support Pains

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. By Euripides