Euripides Quotes

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Oh, 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!

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

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

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

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

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.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

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.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

Leave no stone unturned.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

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

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.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

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.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

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

The language of truth is simple.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

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

Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

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

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.