Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Only a madman would give good for evil
Euripides
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Madmen
Evil
Give
Giving
Good
Would
Madman
More quotes by Euripides
The language of truth is simple.
Euripides
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Euripides
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
Euripides
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
Euripides
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
Euripides
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Euripides
Life is short, yet sweet.
Euripides
I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
Euripides
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
Euripides
The life of men is painful.
Euripides
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
Euripides
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Euripides
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Euripides
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
Euripides
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Euripides
Love's all in all to women.
Euripides
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
Euripides
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
Euripides