Quotes from Euripides

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.

Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?

The good and wise lead quite lives

In childbirth grief begins.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Gods often contradict our fondest expectations. What we anticipate does not come to pass. What we don't expect some god finds a way to make it happen. So with this story

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.

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

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

No one who goes against her can win.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

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

The God knows when to smile.

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.