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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. -- Euripides
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. -- Euripides
Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are? -- Euripides
Or else I would have sung a song
in response to what the male sex sings.
For our lengthy past has much to say
about men's lives as well as ours -- Euripides
A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man -- Euripides
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. -- Euripides
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises. -- Euripides
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. -- Euripides
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. -- Euripides
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. -- Euripides
What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver? -- Euripides
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife. -- Euripides
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ... -- Euripides
A change is always nice. -- Euripides
You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
The good and wise lead quite lives -- Euripides
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear. -- Euripides
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved. -- Euripides
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. -- Euripides
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. -- Euripides
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. -- Euripides
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love. -- Euripides
This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God. -- Euripides
What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say? -- Euripides
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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? -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. -- Euripides
We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much. -- Euripides
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Action achieves more than words. -- Euripides
There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another. -- Euripides
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. -- Euripides
All men know their children mean more than life. -- Euripides
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. -- Euripides
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling. -- Euripides
In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Only a madman would give good for evil -- Euripides
In life, the worst disasters come from passion. -- Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
The man who would prefer great wealth or strength more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul. -- Euripides
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. -- Euripides
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. -- Euripides
Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life? -- Euripides
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force. -- Euripides
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. -- Euripides
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. -- Euripides
Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. -- Euripides
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend. -- Euripides
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. -- Euripides
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. -- Euripides
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. -- Euripides
O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless. -- Euripides
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? -- Euripides
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. -- Euripides
My love for you
was greater than my wisdom. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God. -- Euripides
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 -- Euripides
In childbirth grief begins. -- Euripides
Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. -- Euripides
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory. -- Euripides
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. -- Euripides
Old loves are dropped when new ones come -- Euripides
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. -- Euripides
God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect. -- Euripides
Come, God
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus
burst into life, burst
into being, be a mighty bull,
a hundred-headed snake,
a fire-breathing lion.
Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus! -- Euripides
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. -- Euripides
There is safety in numbers. -- Euripides
O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flowing from the wounds of your trees
in tears of sap,
screaming with the rage
of your hunted beasts. -- Euripides
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst. -- Euripides
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities. -- Euripides
They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands! -- Euripides
Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything. -- Euripides
The wavering mind is but a base possession. -- Euripides
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing. -- Euripides
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides
We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met. -- Euripides
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. -- Euripides
I care for riches, to make gifts. -- Euripides
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. -- Euripides
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! -- Euripides
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred. -- Euripides
I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. -- Euripides
God gives each his due at the time allotted. -- Euripides
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care. -- Euripides
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? -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. -- Euripides
Life is short, yet sweet. -- Euripides
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. -- Euripides
Friends show their love in times of trouble. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
He who believes needs no explanation. -- Euripides
necessity breaks even the strong. -- Euripides
Oh, great king with your dreams of grandeur yet to come/ vile as you are so shall your end be. -- Euripides
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. -- Euripides
Dead men have no victory. -- Euripides
If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing. -- Euripides
Time will unveil all things to posterity. -- Euripides
The bold are helpless without cleverness. -- Euripides
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. -- Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius. -- Euripides
She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate. -- Euripides
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. -- Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death. -- Euripides
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. -- Euripides
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily. -- Euripides
I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night -- Euripides
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends. -- Euripides
I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do. -- Euripides
There is no evil as terrible as a woman. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart! -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helpless agony before the oppressor?
O Lord, come down from Olympus,
shake your golden thyrsus
and stifle the murderer's insolent fury. -- Euripides
If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich. -- Euripides
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness. -- Euripides
Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. -- Euripides
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward. -- Euripides
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. -- Euripides
Youth holds no society with grief. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease. -- Euripides
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. -- Euripides
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? -- Euripides
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. -- Euripides
And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters. -- Euripides
The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. -- Euripides
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. -- Euripides
Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon. -- Euripides
The gift of a bad man can bring no good. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Better a serpent than a stepmother! -- Euripides
The brave venture anything. -- Euripides
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. -- Euripides
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives. -- Euripides
All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge. -- Euripides
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate. -- Euripides
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage? -- Euripides
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. -- Euripides
Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture? -- Euripides
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort? -- Euripides
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. -- Euripides
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything. -- Euripides
It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior. -- Euripides
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. -- Euripides
The wife should yield in all things to her lord -- Euripides
Never that is shall die. -- Euripides
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. -- Euripides
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. -- Euripides
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments. -- Euripides
It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose. -- Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. -- Euripides
[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine. -- Euripides
Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. -- Euripides
Our ancestors ... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. -- Euripides
death is the only water to wash away this dirt -- Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. -- Euripides
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. -- Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. -- Euripides
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. -- Euripides
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. -- Euripides
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. -- Euripides
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. -- Euripides
One moment, one short moment - and forever sorrow. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
The best of seers is he who guesses well. -- Euripides
Wine enlivens the human soul. -- Euripides
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. -- Euripides
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments. -- Euripides
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. -- Euripides
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. -- Euripides
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away. -- Euripides
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. -- Euripides
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. -- Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever. -- Euripides
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. -- Euripides
Much effort, much prosperity. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. -- Euripides
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. -- Euripides
Black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue -- Euripides
Enough is abundance to the wise. -- Euripides
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. -- Euripides
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. -- Euripides
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong? -- Euripides
Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us. -- Euripides
Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be. -- Euripides
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future. -- Euripides
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now -- Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. -- Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies. -- Euripides
The childless escape much misery. -- Euripides
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches ... -- Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. -- Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. -- Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. -- Euripides
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches. -- Euripides
Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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 virtue
and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.. -- Euripides
It would not be better if men got what they wanted. -- Euripides
Bear calamities with meekness. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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". -- Euripides
The unrighteous are never really fortunate. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw. -- Euripides
I have found power in the mysteries of thought. -- Euripides
Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive -- Euripides
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak. -- Euripides
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -- Euripides
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. -- Euripides
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. -- Euripides
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. -- Euripides
Common sense is the best prophet. -- Euripides
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. -- Euripides
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. -- Euripides
How dark are all the ways of god to man! -- Euripides
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. -- Euripides
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. -- Euripides
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. -- Euripides
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. -- Euripides
Money is the wise man's religion. -- Euripides
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters. -- Euripides
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. -- Euripides
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. -- Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides
All is change; all yields its place and goes. -- Euripides
Women don't like violence,
But when their husbands desert them, that is different. -- Euripides
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. -- Euripides
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. -- Euripides
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? -- Euripides
Every man is like the company he wont to keep. -- Euripides
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. -- Euripides
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? -- Euripides
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking. -- Euripides
God helps him who strives hard. -- Euripides
When cheated, wife or husband feels the same. -- Euripides
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. -- Euripides
Many a maiden,
With white feet dancing light as air,
Made happy music through the gloom. -- Euripides
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. -- Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. -- Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. -- Euripides
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. -- Euripides
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. -- Euripides
Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow. -- Euripides
According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement. -- Euripides
How sweet to remember the trouble that is past. -- Euripides
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps. -- Euripides
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves. -- Euripides
The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. -- Euripides
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. -- Euripides
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end. -- Euripides
An ally need not own the land he helps. -- Euripides
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. -- Euripides
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! -- Euripides
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. -- Euripides
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes. -- Euripides
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! -- Euripides
Delusive hope still points to distant good. -- Euripides
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. -- Euripides
She sings a dark destructive song. -- Euripides
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- Euripides
Time cancels young pain. -- Euripides
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. -- Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you. -- Euripides
Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. -- Euripides
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. -- Euripides
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person." -- Euripides
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ... -- Euripides
Noble fathers have noble children. -- Euripides
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. -- Euripides
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. -- Euripides
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong. -- Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. -- Euripides
Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don't expect
some god finds a way to make it happen.
So with this story -- Euripides
Oh, in all things but this,
I know how full of fears a woman is,
And faint at need, and shrinking from the light
Of battle: but once spoil her of her right
In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well,
No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell. -- Euripides
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. -- Euripides
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. -- Euripides
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. -- Euripides
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. -- Euripides
Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance! -- Euripides
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. -- Euripides
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. -- Euripides
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. -- Euripides
Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body. -- Euripides
Where there is no wine there is no love. -- Euripides
Time will bring healing. -- Euripides
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. -- Euripides
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays. -- Euripides
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young. -- Euripides
There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one. -- Euripides
Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart. -- Euripides
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -- Euripides
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ... -- Euripides
The variety of all things forms a pleasure. -- Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. -- Euripides
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours. -- Euripides
The good and wise lead quiet lives. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Go home to your wife. Go bury her. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. -- Euripides
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. -- Euripides
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve. -- Euripides
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men. -- Euripides
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. -- Euripides
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt. -- Euripides
We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate. -- Euripides
Gods should not resemble men in their anger! -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade. -- Euripides
Women's love is for their men, not for their children. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Numbers are a fearful thing. -- Euripides
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. -- Euripides
The language of truth is simple. -- Euripides
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool. -- Euripides
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. -- Euripides
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. -- Euripides
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. -- Euripides
Your very silence shows you agree. -- Euripides
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. -- Euripides
The wisest men follow their own direction. -- Euripides
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. -- Euripides
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier. -- Euripides
To the worker, God himself lends aid. -- Euripides
It's human; we all put self interest first. -- Euripides
There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved. -- Euripides
We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice. -- Euripides
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. -- Euripides
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Nothing's as good as holding on to safety. -- Euripides
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. -- Euripides
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. -- Euripides
The God knows when to smile. -- Euripides
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. -- Euripides
And wealth abides not, it is but for a day. -- Euripides
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. -- Euripides
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. -- Euripides
Death will be my wedding, children and glory. -- Euripides
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair. -- Euripides
So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature. -- Euripides
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. -- Euripides
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. -- Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. -- Euripides
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. -- Euripides
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid. -- Euripides
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. -- Euripides
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. -- Euripides
BAKKHAI : Holiness
is a word I love to hear,
it sounds like wings to me,
wings brushing the world, grazing my life. -- Euripides
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity. -- Euripides
Leave no stone unturned. -- Euripides
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. -- Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -- Euripides
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings -- Euripides
Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore -- Euripides
A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women. -- Euripides
What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are? -- Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour -- Euripides
Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce
the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore. -- Euripides
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. -- Euripides
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 -- Euripides
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. -- Euripides
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. -- Euripides
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts. -- Euripides
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. -- Euripides
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? -- Euripides
Too much zeal offends where indirection works. -- Euripides
The wise with hope support the pains of life. -- Euripides
For the weariest road that man may wend
Is forth fromn the home of his father. -- Euripides
Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy! -- Euripides
Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all -- Euripides
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. -- Euripides
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness. -- Euripides
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. -- Euripides
No one who goes against her can win. -- Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another. -- Euripides
It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference. -- Euripides
To generous souls every task is noble. -- Euripides
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. -- Euripides
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. -- Euripides
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. -- Euripides
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? -- Euripides
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman. -- Euripides
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. -- Euripides
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. -- Euripides
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence. -- Euripides
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well. -- Euripides
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. -- Euripides
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not. -- Euripides
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death. -- Euripides
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. -- Euripides
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. -- Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. -- Euripides
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. -- Euripides
She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares. -- Euripides
Authority is never without hate. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. -- Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought. -- Euripides
Prosperity is full of friends. -- Euripides
There is the sky, which is all men's together. -- Euripides
If the gods do evil then they are not gods. -- Euripides
Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave. -- Euripides
None can hold fortune still and make it last. -- Euripides
Whose sons would cling bold to the craggy heights of war -- Euripides
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. -- Euripides
Woman is woman's natural ally. -- Euripides
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly. -- Euripides
courage is the gift of character -- Euripides
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing. -- Euripides
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. -- Euripides
no man,
is ever happy, no one. -- Euripides
Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. -- Euripides
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. -- Euripides
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. -- Euripides
No one who lives in error is free. -- Euripides
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. -- Euripides
Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place. -- Euripides
Love's all in all to women. -- Euripides
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by. -- Euripides
A woman should always stand by a woman. -- Euripides
My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God. -- Euripides
Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers -- Euripides
Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind. -- Euripides
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. -- Euripides
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. -- Euripides
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging. -- Euripides
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. -- Euripides
The life of men is painful. -- Euripides
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God. -- Euripides
No one is happy all his life long. -- Euripides
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment. -- Euripides
