Quotes from Euripides

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

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

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

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.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?