683 Quotes by Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it’s best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let’s have virtue.

Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

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.

A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.

High honors are sweet To a man’s heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

Woman is woman’s natural ally.

You don’t know what your life is, nor what you’re doing, nor who you are.

If I could remake the world, I’d banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.