A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. Euripides pain lovers desire All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck! Euripides men mean children The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. Euripides born fate Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. Euripides human-life honor men In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. Euripides rewards pleasure payment My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. Euripides clean heart hands If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. Euripides women children world Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. Euripides disease evil men The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. Euripides power-moves divine-power moving Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. Euripides envy poverty want Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes. Euripides greatness power hands How dark are all the ways of god to man! Euripides dark men way The man whom heaven helps has friends enough. Euripides helping men heaven The life of men is painful. Euripides painful men If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife. Euripides saws wise men 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 prayer men lying Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! Euripides envy praying How sweet to remember the trouble that is past. Euripides remember sweet past A change is always nice. Euripides nice Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. Euripides tantrums emotion children
