Euripides

It’s folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Euripides

It’s human; we all put self interest first.

Euripides

It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Euripides

It’s the wise man who stays home when he’s drunk.

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Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

Euripides

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.

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Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Euripides

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

Euripides

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Euripides