683 Quotes by Euripides

What man’s not guilty? It’s taken you a long time to learn That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and snake-hands coiling round a fruit of agonizing pain.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house.

The wisest men follow their own direction.