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Famous Euripides Quotes
“A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.”
“The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.”
“There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.”
“Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.”
“My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.”
“Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”
“The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.”
“The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.”
“The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).”
“Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.”
“In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.”
“O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.”
“A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.”
“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.”
“For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.”
“Numbers are a fearful thing.”
“The wife should yield in all things to her lord”
“He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.”
“Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.”
“Gods should not resemble men in their anger!”
“Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.”