We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be. Euripides hurt men order If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. Euripides dancing drinking men The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. Euripides anger-and-bitterness rage anger There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides benefits giving men The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself. Euripides women medicine fire I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides stronger fate men Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. Euripides hate heart men Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. Euripides cowardice coward battle To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave. Euripides found-you two son This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free. Euripides liberty may men I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Euripides exaltation mystery thinking There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair. Euripides emotional feelings joy The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought. Euripides wise courage men courage is the gift of character Euripides character What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. Euripides turns hate lovers Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths. Euripides misery communication mouths Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman. Euripides women fire sea In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story. Euripides leader men hands Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper. Euripides wickedness evil men Time cancels young pain. Euripides pain young
