Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Weitere Zitate von Euripides
Zum Autor"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect."
"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
"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."
"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."
"Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence."