Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

More from Euripides

• A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
• I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
• Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
• Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Antigone. Frag 164.
• Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
• Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.