Euripides Quotes

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

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

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

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

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

Noble fathers have noble children.

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

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

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

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

No one who lives in error is free.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Leave no stone untamed.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

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.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

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

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

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

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

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

Authority is never without hate.