Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? — Euripides Copy Share Image
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? — Euripides Copy Share Image
Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life? — Euripides Copy Share Image
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's… — 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
“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is.… — Euripides Copy Share Image
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier. — Euripides Copy Share Image
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in… — 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 Image
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
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 Image
