Euripides Quotes

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

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

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

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass."

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

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"Silence is true wisdom's best reply."

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

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"The 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."

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

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

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

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

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

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."

"The wavering mind is but a base possession."

"Much effort, much prosperity."

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

"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."

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