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Only one in command: that's the way in the home and the way in the state when it must find measures best for mankind (Euripides Quotes)
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great men's houses (Euripides Quotes)
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy (Euripides Quotes)
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes - a few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry (Euripides Quotes)
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort? (Euripides Quotes)
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine (Euripides Quotes)
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them (Euripides Quotes)
A rare spoil for a man is the winning of a good wife; very plentiful are the worthless women (Euripides Quotes)
Marry, and with luck it may go well. But when a marriage fails, then those who marry live at home in hell (Euripides Quotes)
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story (Euripides Quotes)
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury (Euripides Quotes)
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward (Euripides Quotes)
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise and shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, and have no wits, although we think us wise (Euripides Quotes)
All men know their children mean more than life. If childless people sneer - well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck! (Euripides Quotes)
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing A potent spell. All women alike Fight fiercely for a child (Euripides Quotes)
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues (Euripides Quotes)
Oh, it is vile for a man, if he be noble, and when he has won to the heights of power, To put on new manners for old and change His countenance (Euripides Quotes)
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes (Euripides Quotes)
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging (Euripides Quotes)
This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong (Euripides Quotes)
If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful (Euripides Quotes)
Those who are held wise among men and who search the reasons of things are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves (Euripides Quotes)
For silence and a chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house (Euripides Quotes)
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one (Euripides Quotes)
Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care (Euripides Quotes)
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event (Euripides Quotes)
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad (Euripides Quotes)
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends (Euripides Quotes)
Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put (Euripides Quotes)
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness (Euripides Quotes)