Euripides, Medea
"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
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"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
Euripides, Medea
"Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right."
Euripides, Medea
"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."
Euripides, Medea
"or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings. For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours"
Euripides, Medea
"Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive"
Euripides, Medea
"For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood."
Euripides, Medea
"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
Euripides, Medea
"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
Euripides, Medea
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