I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

About Euripides

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Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays...

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The wisest men follow their own direction.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Your very silence shows you agree.

More quotations tagged with “evil”

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

We must as second best… take the least of the evils.

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