Quotes by Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Leave no stone unturned.

The good and wise lead quite lives

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

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.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortunes course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

This is slavery, not to speak ones thought.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

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.

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout mens lives as well as ours

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.