176 quotes found
5th-century BC Athenian playwright
“The coward despairs.”
“The myth is not my own”
“Leave no stone unturned.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
“Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the great...”
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”
“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro ...”
“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
“The good and wise lead quite lives”
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”
“Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive”
“or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours”
“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”