It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.
EuripidesThe best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
EuripidesSome men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
EuripidesThe brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
EuripidesLife is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
EuripidesOur lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
EuripidesEvents will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
EuripidesWhen the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.
EuripidesIf a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
EuripidesAll men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
EuripidesOh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
EuripidesLearned 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]
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