Euripides
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.Collection: Ocean
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.Collection: Causes
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.Collection: Men
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.Collection: Inspirational
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.Collection: Success
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Collection: Inspirational
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.Collection: Travel
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.Collection: Wise
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.Collection: Punishment
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.Collection: Gambling
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.Collection: Hope
Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.Collection: Beauty
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.Collection: Men
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.Collection: Men
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.Collection: Wise
Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.Collection: Looks
There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.Collection: Two
Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.Collection: Safety
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.Collection: Heart
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.Collection: Laughter
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.Collection: Literature
The unrighteous are never really fortunate.Collection: Wickedness
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Collection: Life
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.Collection: Virtue
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!Collection: Women
How dark are all the ways of god to man!Collection: Dark
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?Collection: Struggle
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.Collection: Pain
Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.Collection: Sacrifice
Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.Collection: Agony
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.Collection: Children
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.Collection: Running
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.Collection: Power
Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.Collection: Mistake
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.Collection: Mean
Only a madman would give good for evilCollection: Evil
A change is always nice.Collection: Nice
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.Collection: Life And Death
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: Sex
Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."Collection: Character
Leave no stone untamed.Collection: Untamed
Love's all in all to women.Collection: Women
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.Collection: Long
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.Collection: Confusion
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!Collection: Envy
Life is short, yet sweet.Collection: Life