1. Virtue gives more jealousy to evil than vice. ~ Euripides
2. How bad slavery is always by nature, and how it supports what it should not, subjected by force! ~ Euripides
3. Work is the father of glory and happiness. ~ Euripides
4. Wealth is the thing most honored by men and the source of the greatest power. ~ Euripides
5. The measured man is enough with enough. ~ Euripides
6. There is nothing in the world worse than a woman, except another woman. ~ Euripides
7. It is harmful for superior men that a villain achieves prestige by being able to contain the people with his tongue, someone who was nobody before. ~ Euripides
8. In goodness all kinds of wisdom are enclosed. ~ Euripides
9. Full of torments is human life, and there is no rest in our hardships; And if living is so sweet, perhaps the darkness of death will envelop us. ~ Euripides
10. Love is the most fertile teacher in resources. ~ Euripides
11. Genius turns the exception into a rule. ~ Euripides
12. What greater pain can there be for mortals than to see their children dead? ~ Euripides
13. The opportunist who is good for nothing, always enchants the rabble. ~ Euripides
14. I hate the learned woman. Hopefully a woman who knows more than a woman should know doesn’t come into my house. ~ Euripides
15. Do not look into the distance, neglecting what is close to you. ~ Euripides
16. In mute circumstances the good friend manifests himself. ~ Euripides
17. It is said that gifts still persuade the gods. ~ Euripides
18. A noble man forgets past injuries. ~ Euripides
19. Unhappiness is an evil without solution. ~ Euripides
20. A good custom is stronger than a law. ~ Euripides
21. Oh virtue, I have followed you all my life, and at last I find that you are nothing more than a shadow! ~ Euripides
22. When a good man is wounded, everyone who considers himself good must suffer with him. ~ Euripides
23. An old man is nothing more than a voice and a shadow. ~ Euripides
24. If you say bad things about us, you will hear many bad and true things. ~ Euripides
25. Gifts, that come from an evil man, do not bring profit. ~ Euripides
26. Never, among men, should the tongue be worth more than the action. ~ Euripides
27. Noble parents have noble children. ~ Euripides
28. I maintain, then, that mortals who do not know hymen or the sweetness of paternity, are happier than those who have children. ~ Euripides
29. The king must keep in mind three things: that he governs men, that he must govern them according to the law and that he will not always govern. ~ Euripides
30. My tongue promises, but my mind has not promised. ~ Euripides
31. Of all the beings that live and think, women are the most unfortunate… A man, when he is upset at home, can go out and free his spirit from boredom in dealing with his friends and those of his age . But we women can only look inside our own hearts. ~ Euripides
32. Life is not true life, but only pain. ~ Euripides
33. When calamities befall a State, the gods are forgotten and no one cares to honor them. ~ Euripides
34. The family misses the man who dies a lot; but the woman is worth little. ~ Euripides
35. When there is an excess of love, man loses his honor and his worth. ~ Euripides
36. Row your own boat. ~ Euripides
37. In front of a crowd, the mediocre are the most eloquent. ~ Euripides
38. He who dies neither cries nor feels pain. ~ Euripides
39. It is not what the speaker says, but who he is, that gives weight to eloquence. ~ Euripides
40. The wisest men follow their own course. ~ Euripides
41. The law of man’s nature is equality. ~ Euripides
42. There is no absolutely free man. He is a slave to wealth, or to fortune, or to the laws, or else the people prevent him from acting according to their exclusive will. ~ Euripides
43. The expected does not happen, it is the unexpected that happens. ~ Euripides
44. Who knows if what we call death is nothing but life; and death, instead, what we judge to be life? ~ Euripides
45. If we could be twice young and twice old, we would correct all our mistakes. ~ Euripides
46. When death approaches, the old find that old age is no longer a burden. ~ Euripides
47. A single man is more worthy of seeing the light than countless women. ~ Euripides
48. When fortune smiles, what need is there for friends? ~ Euripides
49. Poverty has this defect: it encourages man to commit bad deeds. ~ Euripides
50. It is too heavy a burden for one heart to suffer for two. ~ Euripides
51. Opulence has its misery: it is cowardly and clings to life. ~ Euripides
52. All things are born from the earth, and all things take it back. ~ Euripides
53. You will find many excuses, because you are a woman. ~ Euripides
54. When a people works, God respects it. But when a people sing, God loves them. ~ Euripides
55. Never call a mortal happy until you have seen how, on his last day, he descends to the grave. ~ Euripides
56. It would be convenient for mortals to procreate children by other means, and that there were no women, so they would be free from all evil. ~ Euripides
57. Count yourself among the blessed, the one to whom nothing bad has happened throughout the day. ~ Euripides
58. A woman should be good for everything inside the house and useless for everything outside of it. ~ Euripides
59. Those who do not have children are spared much suffering. ~ Euripides
60. Man does not live on bread, but on truth. ~ Euripides
61. The rich cannot buy the privilege of dying old. ~ Euripides
62. Be happy: there are no friends when one is miserable. ~ Euripides
63. It is never shameful what is forced. ~ Euripides
64. I do not applaud envy; but I would like to be envied because of some good deed. ~ Euripides
65. Even misfortunes must be felt in moderation. ~ Euripides
66. Just as our body is mortal, anger should not be immortal. Thus speak the wise. ~ Euripides
67. By maintaining that the gods exist, is it not that we deceive ourselves with lies and unreal dreams, since only chance and change itself control the world? ~ Euripides
68. Poorly achieved gains report losses. ~ Euripides
69. Oh! precious balm of sleep, relief from ills, how I thank you for coming to me in times of need. ~ Euripides
70. The best adornment of a woman is silence and modesty. ~ Euripides
71. The man who asks the gods for death is a madman: there is nothing in death as good as the misery of life. ~ Euripides
72. No mortal is happy to the end; there has been none now that does not know pain. ~ Euripides
73. Who wants to propose to the people a useful decision for the community? The one who wants to do it gets the glory, the one who doesn’t, he shuts up. ~ Euripides
74. It is a happy misfortune not to have children. ~ Euripides
75. The best prophet is the one who calculates the best. ~ Euripides
76. It is easier to give advice than to endure adversity with strength. ~ Euripides
77. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. ~ Euripides
78. Question everything, learn something, but don’t expect any answers. ~ Euripides
79. Now that I have reached old age, how I hate it! ~ Euripides
80. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. ~ Euripides
