Quote

Authority is never without hate.

Euripides

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Never
Despise
Authority
Hate
Without

More quotes by Euripides

Image
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
Image
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides
Image
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides
Image
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
Euripides
Image
The wife should yield in all things to her lord
Euripides
Image
I care for riches, to make gifts.
Euripides
Image
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides
Image
Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
Euripides
Image
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
Image
Life is a short affair We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides
Image
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
Euripides
Image
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Euripides
Image
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
Euripides
Image
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Euripides
Image
tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
Euripides
Image
A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife very Plentiful are the worthless women.
Euripides
Image
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.
Euripides
Image
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides
Image
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
Image
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides