Euripides Quotes

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

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

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

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.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

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

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

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.

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

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Authority is never without hate.

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

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

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

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Your very silence shows you agree.

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

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

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

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]