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Euripides Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: Greek Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 480 BC Year of Death: 406 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Euripides Related Authors: Sophocles Horace Aeschylus Hesiod Homer Aristophanes Menander |
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. Euripides Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. Euripides Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides 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. Euripides 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. Euripides 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. Euripides There is just one life for each of us: our own. Euripides There is the sky, which is all men's together. Euripides This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. Euripides Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. Euripides Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. Euripides 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. Euripides |
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