Euripides Quotes

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

“Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.”

“Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.”

“Every man is like the company he wont to keep.”

“Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”

“Action achieves more than words.”

“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.”

“The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.”

“This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.”

“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”

“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”

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

“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.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

“Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.”

“Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”

“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.”

“To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.”

“Time will bring healing.”

“Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.”

“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.”

“Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.”

“The life of men is painful.”

“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”