Euripides
Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.Collection: Children
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.Collection: Love
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.Collection: Sadness
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.Collection: Hero
We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.Collection: Looks
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.Collection: Men
Account no man happy till he dies.Collection: Happiness
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.Collection: Clever
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.Collection: Home
Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.Collection: Honest Woman
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.Collection: Fate
The life of men is painful.Collection: Men
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.Collection: Speak
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.Collection: Toil
Virtue proceeds through effort.Collection: Effort
All men know their children mean more than life.Collection: Children
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wiseCollection: Wise
Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.Collection: Wine
Noble fathers have noble children.Collection: Funny
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.Collection: God
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.Collection: Strong
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.Collection: Life
Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.Collection: Honesty
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.Collection: Wise
A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.Collection: Marriage
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.Collection: Men
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.Collection: Ideas
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.Collection: Literature
Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.Collection: Blessed
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.Collection: Women
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.Collection: Life
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Believe
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.Collection: Kind
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.Collection: Common Sense
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.Collection: Hypocrite
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?Collection: Remains
The language of truth is simple.Collection: Communication
No one who lives in error is free.Collection: Freedom
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!Collection: Mother
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.Collection: Wise
And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.Collection: Wealth
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.Collection: Crush
None wise dares hopeless venture.Collection: Wise
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.Collection: Mind
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.Collection: Children
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.Collection: Two
Every man is like the company he wont to keep.Collection: Men