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.
EURIPIDESCourage is the gift of character
More Euripides Quotes
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Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
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It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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