Euripides Quotes
Most popular Euripides Quotes
Here all mankind is equal; rich and poor alike, they love their children.
Women: the fairer sex.
Leave no stone unturned.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Love's all in all to woman.
Woman is woman's natural ally.
Second thoughts are ever wiser.
Authority is never without hate.
Money is the wise man's religion.
The lucky man passes for a genius.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Every man is like the company he keeps.
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
The wise men to follow their own course.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
There is pleasure in hardship heard about.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Not everything connected with old age is bad.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
A man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
What is ordained is master of the gods and thee.
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
Sight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Those who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Bearing a child is worse than fighting three battles.
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
We pay a high price for being intelligent. Wisdom hurts.
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
A wretched child is one who does not return his parents' care.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
A man's worth shines forth the brightest, who in hope confides.
Youth is the best time to be rich; and the best time to be poor.
This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Woman brings to man his greatest blessing and his greatest plague.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keeps a husband.
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
Out of some little thing, to free a tongue Can make an outrageous wrangle.
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
I care for riches, to make gifts to friends, or lead a sick man back to health.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
Keep alive the light of justice, and much that men say in blame will pass you by.
The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his own special excellence.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes one has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Power gives no purchase to the hand; it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all; only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been created better than a good one.
That man is happiest who lives day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing A potent spell. All women alike Fight fiercely for a child.
Few have greater riches than the joy that comes to us in visions, in dreams which no man can take away.
Marry, and with luck it may go well. But when marriage fails, then those who marry lie at home in hell.
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own, but only that; the rest belongs to chance.
Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands the laws, and lords it over them.
Lucky that parent whose children make them happiness in life and not their grief, the anguished disappointment of their hopes.
Unblessed is the child who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, the child will receive the same from his own.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Here all mankind is equal: rich and poor alike, they love their children.
