Because you suffer, why should you so arrogantly include all women in one general reproach? - Euripides

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.

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..

This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.