A Quote by Euripides
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
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No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.
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So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
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