Quotes By Author: Euripides

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?”

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”