Euripides Quotes

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

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

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

He who believes needs no explanation.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

She sings a dark destructive song.

There is the sky, which is all men’s together.

Black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

In childbirth grief begins.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

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.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.