Euripides

Quotes

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
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.
Time cancels young pain.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Leave no stone unturned.
I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Your very silence shows you agree.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
I sacrifice to no god save myself � And to my belly, greatest of deities.
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.