Euripides Quotes

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

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

Your very silence shows you agree.

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

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

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

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

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Leave no stone unturned.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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.

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

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

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

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Prosperity is full of friends.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

Authority is never without hate.

The good and wise lead quite lives

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

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

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.

God helps him who strives hard.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

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

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

No one who lives in error is free.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

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

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

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

To generous souls every task is noble.

No one is happy all his life long.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

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

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

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

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

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

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

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

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

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them....

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

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

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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

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

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Money is the wise man's religion.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

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

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.