Quotes by Euripides

“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”

“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”

“Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.”

“In childbirth grief begins.”

“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

“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 ...”

“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...”

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.”

“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

“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.”

“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”

“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”

“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 possess...”

“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”