Euripidés: Man

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”

“Man's most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

“Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”

“The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.”

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”

“I think,
Some shrewd man first, a man in judgment wise,
Found for mortals the fear of gods,
Thereby to frighten the wicked should they
Even act or speak or scheme in secret.”

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

“Naught is more hostile to a city than a despot; where he is, there are in the first place no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end.”

“p>Helen: What happened in my heart, to make me leave my home
And my own land, to follow where a stranger led?
Rail at the goddess; be more resolute than Zeus,
Who holds power over all other divinities
But is himself the slave of love. Show Aphrodite
Your indignation; me, pardon and sympathy.Hecabe: No; Paris was an extremely handsome man – one look,
And your appetite became your Aphrodite. Why,
Men's lawless lusts are all called love – it's a confusion
Easily made.”

“Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.”

“Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.”

“Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.”