Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.
EURIPIDESMortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.
EURIPIDESWe pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
EURIPIDESI loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
EURIPIDESQuestion everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDESYour very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDESCleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDESAction achieves more than words.
EURIPIDESShe came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.
EURIPIDESMan’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDESDo not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDESHuman misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
EURIPIDESTalk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDESThe man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
EURIPIDESStronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDESDeath is the only water to wash away this dirt.
EURIPIDESCommon sense is the best prophet.
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