Euripides Quotes

To generous souls every task is noble.

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]

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

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Action achieves more than words.

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

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

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

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

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

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

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

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

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

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

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

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

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

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Bear calamities with meekness.

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

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

Prosperity is full of friends.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

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