Euripides Quotes

I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.

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

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

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.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

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

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

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

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

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

Leave no stone unturned.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Action achieves more than words.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

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

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

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

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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

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

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

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.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.

Money is the wise man's religion.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

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

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

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.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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