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1 " Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. "
― Euripides , Medea
2 " The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. "
― Euripides , Medea and Other Plays
3 " When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. "
― Euripides
4 " What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes? "
― Euripides , Helen
5 " Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. "
6 " Cleverness is not wisdom. "
― Euripides , The Bacchae
7 " Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? "
8 " Leave no stone unturned. "
9 " The good and wise lead quite lives "
10 " The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. "
11 " Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never. "
12 " That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. "
― Euripides , Trojan women: The Trojan women by Euripedes, and Helen, and Orestes by Ritsos
13 " One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. "
14 " ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head "
15 " This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. "
― Euripides , The Phoenician Women
16 " When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. "
― Euripides , Orestes
17 " For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. "
18 " O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong? "
19 " Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future. "
20 " Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence. "
― Euripides , Suppliant Women
