Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
– Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
– Euripides
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
– Euripides
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
– Euripides
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.
– Euripides
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
– Euripides
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
– Euripides
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
– Euripides
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
– Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
– Euripides
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
– Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
– Euripides
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
– Euripides
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
– Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
– Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
– Euripides
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
– Euripides
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
– Euripides
It is change; all yields its place and goes.
– Euripides
It is the gods' best gift.
– Euripides
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
– Euripides
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
– Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
– Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
– Euripides
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
– Euripides
Much effort, much prosperity.
– Euripides
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
– Euripides
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
– Euripides
No one is happy all his life long.
– Euripides
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.
– Euripides
No one who lives in error is free.
– Euripides
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
– Euripides
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.
– Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
– Euripides
Prosperity is full of friends.
– Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
– Euripides
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
– Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
– Euripides
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
– Euripides
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
– Euripides
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
– Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
– Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius.
– Euripides
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
– Euripides
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
– Euripides
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
– Euripides
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
– Euripides
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
– Euripides
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
– Euripides
To see their children dead before their eyes?
– Euripides
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
– Euripides
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
– Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
– Euripides
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
– Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
– Euripides
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
– Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
– Euripides
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.
– Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
– Euripides
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
– Euripides
Your very silence shows you agree.
– Euripides
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
– Euripides
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
– Euripides
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
– Euripides
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
– Euripides
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
– Euripides
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
– Euripides
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
– Euripides
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
– Euripides
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
– Euripides
Time cancels young pain.
– Euripides
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
– Euripides
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
– Euripides
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
– Euripides
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
– Euripides
Leave no stone unturned.
– Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
– Euripides
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
– Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
– Euripides
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
– Euripides
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
– Euripides
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
– Euripides
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
– Euripides
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
– Euripides
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
– Euripides
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
– Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
– Euripides
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
– Euripides
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
– Euripides
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
