Euripides quotes:

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  • One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  • Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  • Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

  • Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  • The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

  • There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

  • He is not a lover who does not love forever.

  • When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  • Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

  • Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  • It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

  • Leave no stone unturned.

  • To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

  • No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  • Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  • Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

  • Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

  • Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

  • Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

  • No one is happy all his life long.

  • Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

  • But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

  • The lucky person passes for a genius.

  • No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

  • Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

  • Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  • Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  • Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

  • God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

  • Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

  • Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

  • To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  • ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

  • Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

  • Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

  • In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

  • Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

  • Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll."

  • Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body."

  • Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless."

  • Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  • Authority is never without hate.

  • New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

  • Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

  • Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

  • The wisest men follow their own direction.

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

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

  • Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

  • The bold are helpless without cleverness.

  • Cleverness is not wisdom.

  • We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

  • No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  • Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

  • I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.

  • Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

  • Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

  • I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

  • When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

  • Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  • What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

  • The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  • Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

  • Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

  • Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

  • I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

  • Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

  • I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

  • In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

  • Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

  • A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

  • You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

  • The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

  • Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  • Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  • Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

  • Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

  • O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

  • Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

  • Do not consider painful what is good for you.

  • The greatest pleasure of life is love.

  • That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

  • In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

  • Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

  • Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

  • The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

  • The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

  • God gives each his due at the time allotted.

  • 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.

  • Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

  • I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

  • 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..

  • Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  • O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

  • Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

  • The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

  • Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

  • Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death~?

  • The good and wise lead quite lives

  • My love for youwas greater than my wisdom.

  • no man,is ever happy, no one.

  • In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

  • Better a serpent than a stepmother!

  • Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

  • The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches...

  • This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

  • The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

  • Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  • Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

  • Life is short, yet sweet.

  • Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

  • Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

  • The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)

  • Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

  • If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  • The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

  • The wavering mind is but a base possession.

  • To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

  • They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

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