Euripides Quotes (134 Quotes)

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.

Authority is never without hate.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

The God of War hates those who hesitate.

The whole wide ether is the eagle's way The whole earth is a brave man's fatherland

What else is an old man but voice and shadow.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Life is short, yet sweet.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

To generous souls, every task is noble.

Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

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

Prosperity is full of friends.

Here all mankind is equal rich and poor alike, they love their children.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Try first thyself, and after call in God For to the worker God himself lend aid.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first A viper is not more hateful.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

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

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

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.

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

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

There is one thing alone - that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

No one who lives in error is free.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

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

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.

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Vengeance comes not openly, either upon you or any wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

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

The greatest pleasure of life is love.