Quotes by Euripides

• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
• 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.
• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
• Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
• Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
• Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
• Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
• Prosperity is full of friends.
• The best of seers is he who guesses well.
• 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.
• Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
• No one who lives in error is free.
• 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.
• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
• This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
• Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
• When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
• No one is happy all his life long.
• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
• The bold are helpless without cleverness.
• There is the sky, which is all men's together.
• There is just one life for each of us: our own.
• The wavering mind is but a base possession.
• The lucky person passes for a genius.
• The greatest pleasure of life is love.
• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
• Cleverness is not wisdom.
• I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
• Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
• 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.
• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
• Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
• Friends show their love in times of trouble.
• Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
• But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
• Better a serpent than a stepmother!
• Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
• Do not consider painful what is good for you.
• It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
• Much effort, much prosperity.
• Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
• Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
• Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
• In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
• Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
• He is not a lover who does not love forever.
• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
• Leave no stone unturned.