Quotes from Euripides

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

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.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Woman is woman's natural ally.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.