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

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

— Euripides

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

— Euripides

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

— Euripides

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

— Euripides

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

— Euripides

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

— Euripides

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice.

— Euripides

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?

— Euripides

What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.

— Euripides