Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
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“Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.”
Source: Three Great Plays of Euripides
Source: Euripides
“Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
“Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.”
Source: Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version
“Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.”
Source: Euripides
“Too much zeal offends where indirection works.”
Source: Euripides
“Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.”
Source: Euripides
“What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“God gives each his due at the time allotted.”
Source: Ten Plays by Euripides
Source: Medea
“Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”
Source: Euripides
“Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”
Source: Euripides
“Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Source: Euripides
“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”
“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
“The unrighteous are never really fortunate.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.”
Source: Euripides
“There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
“What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.”
Source: Euripides
“They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae