Euripides Quotes - Page 2

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

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

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours

Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.

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

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

The coward despairs.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Your very silence shows you agree.

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

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Men are men they needs must err.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

All is change all yields its place and goes.

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

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

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

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

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

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

The wisest men follow their own direction.