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


Euripides

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES
But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
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Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES
Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES
The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES
It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES
Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES
Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES
Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES
No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES
To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES
Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES
Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES
Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES
God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES
Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES
You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES
They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES
For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES
Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES
Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES
What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES
Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES
This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES
[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES
O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES
Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES
The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES
O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES
Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES
My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES
Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES
He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES
He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES
Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES
Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES
Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES
But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES
A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES
Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES
When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES
The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES
Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES
Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES
I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES
Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES
Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES
Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES
What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES
I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES
If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES
For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES
Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES
Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES
The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES
Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES
Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES
All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES
The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES
If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES
The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES
Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES
No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES
The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES
It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES