Euripides Quotes

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

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

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

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.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

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

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

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

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

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.

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

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

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

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Account no man happy till he dies.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

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.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

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

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

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

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

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

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

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

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

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

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.