Euripides Quotes

Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.

No one is happy all his life long.

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

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

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

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

The good and wise lead quite lives

Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

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

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

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

Leave no stone unturned.

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

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

Money is the wise man's religion.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

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

Noble fathers have noble children.

In childbirth grief begins.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

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

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

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

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

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

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

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

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.