Euripides Quotes

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

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

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Youth holds no society with grief.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

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

Virtue proceeds through effort.

Time cancels young pain.

Time will bring healing.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

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

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

All men know their children mean more than life.

courage is the gift of character

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

There is safety in numbers.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Life is short, yet sweet.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

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

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.