Euripides Quotes

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

In life, the worst disasters come from passion.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

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.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Numbers are a fearful thing.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

Leave no stone untamed.

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

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.

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?

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.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

The life of men is painful.

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.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

A change is always nice.

Love's all in all to women.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.