“The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.”
Source: Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae
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“Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
Source: Medea
“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.”
Source: Medea
“The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.”
Source: Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae
“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
Source: The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse
“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”
“The gift of a bad man can bring no good.”
Source: Euripides
“All men know their children mean more than life.”
Source: Euripides
“There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.”
Source: Medea
“The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.”
“This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.”
Source: Euripides, 2: Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.”
“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
Source: Euripides
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”
Source: Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.”
Source: Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore
“There is the sky, which is all men's together.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
“Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
Source: Medea
Source: Euripides
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
“What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.”
Source: Euripides
“It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.”
Source: The conversion of Herakles: an essay in Euripidean tragic structure
“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
“Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“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
Source: Euripides