“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much:… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share
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… — Euripides Copy Share
“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth… — Euripides Copy Share
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out… — Euripides Copy Share
