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Euripides Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Greek Poet Quotes
Year of Birth:
480 BC
Year of Death:
406 BC
Nationality:
Greek
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Euripides

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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides

Authority is never without hate.
Euripides

Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Euripides

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

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Euripides

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Euripides

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

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.
Euripides

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Euripides

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble.
Euripides

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

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

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides

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

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Euripides

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides

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

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Euripides

Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides

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

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
Euripides

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
Euripides

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

No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides

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.
Euripides

No one who lives in error is free.
Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides

Prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Euripides

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides

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

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Euripides

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

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

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.
Euripides

The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Euripides

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides

The lucky person passes for a genius.
Euripides

The wavering mind is but a base possession.
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
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There is the sky, which is all men's together.
Euripides

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides

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

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

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

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

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

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