Euripides Quotes
Euripides Quotes
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
3338Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
1271 Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
2222 Cleverness is not wisdom.
3903 Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
2461 Leave no stone unturned.
1944 The good and wise lead quite lives
2322 The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
4434 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?
4923 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.
2091 There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
1946 ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
3489 This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
2763 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.
1560 One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
4333 When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
1461 Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
2937 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.
2344 O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
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