Euripides famous quotes

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Hands #Decision

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Life #Education

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
-- Euripides

#Friendship #Positive #Real Friends

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-- Euripides

#Relationship #Stupid #Communication

Leave no stone unturned.
-- Euripides

#Wisdom #Book #Beer

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
-- Euripides

#Love #Life #Pleasure

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
-- Euripides

#Character #Gold #Literature

He is not a lover who does not love forever.
-- Euripides

#Love #Life #Romantic

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

#Friendship #Happiness #Friends Show

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

#Life #Wise #Power

The wisest men follow their own direction.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Wise #Hard Work

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
-- Euripides

#Life #Inspirational Life #Answers

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

#Life #Positive #Graduation

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

#Courage #Men #Choices

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
-- Euripides

#Love #Men #Honor

Noble fathers have noble children.
-- Euripides

#Fathers Day #Children #Father

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.
-- Euripides

#Wine #Sorrow #Rich

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Grief #Yesterday

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

#Freedom #Law #People

Much effort, much prosperity.
-- Euripides

#Meaningful #Effort #Literature

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
-- Euripides

#Risk #Cleverness #Helpless

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
-- Euripides

#Marriage #Beauty #Girl

No one who lives in error is free.
-- Euripides

#Freedom #Errors

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

#Literature #Parliament

Cleverness is not wisdom.
-- Euripides

#Wisdom #Life And Love #Silly

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

#Death #Tomorrow #Stills

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
-- Euripides

#War #Soldier #Beats

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
-- Euripides

#Men #Liberty #May

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

#Happiness #Attitude #Anger

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

#Freedom #Literature #Slavery

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
-- Euripides

#Honesty #Night #Men

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
-- Euripides

#Men #Law #Cities

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
-- Euripides

#Effort #Desire #Foolish

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.
-- Euripides

#Blow #Men #Yield

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
-- Euripides

#Life #Kindness #Anger

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

#Hurt #Character #Men

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
-- Euripides

#Travel #Inspirational Life

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
-- Euripides

#Voice #Joy #Roaring

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
-- Euripides

#Character #Men #Wealth

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
-- Euripides

#God #Moving #Might

The language of truth is simple.
-- Euripides

#Communication #Simple #Language

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
-- Euripides

#Sweet #Safety #Remembrance

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
-- Euripides

#Honesty #Integrity #Believe

To generous souls every task is noble.
-- Euripides

#Generosity #Soul #Tasks

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
-- Euripides

#Success #Men #Excellence

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
-- Euripides

#Men #Wife #Sympathetic

Better a serpent than a stepmother!
-- Euripides

#Stepmothers #Serpent

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
-- Euripides

#Mean #Power #Suffering

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

#Toil #Reputation #Fame

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.
-- Euripides

#Women #Sick #Pleasure

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
-- Euripides

#Drinking #Men #Dancing

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

#Courage #Men #Heaven

Where there is no wine there is no love.
-- Euripides

#Wine

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
-- Euripides

#Ideas #World #This World

Money is the wise man's religion.
-- Euripides

#Wise #Money #Men

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
-- Euripides

#Children #Military #May

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
-- Euripides

#Hate #Cups

Your very silence shows you agree.
-- Euripides

#Book #Beer #Silence

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

#Love #Men #Heaven

The lucky person passes for a genius.
-- Euripides

#Lucky #Genius #Literature

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
-- Euripides

#Ignorance #Adversity #Ignorant

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
-- Euripides

#Peace #Hate #War

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
-- Euripides

#Love #Helping Others #Way

Prosperity is full of friends.
-- Euripides

#Literature #Prosperity

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
-- Euripides

#Strength #Literature

There is the sky, which is all men's together.
-- Euripides

#Nature #Men #Sky

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
-- Euripides

#Money #Food #Men

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
-- Euripides

#Wise #Wisdom #Second Thoughts

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
-- Euripides

#Life #Wise #Silence

Enough is abundance to the wise.
-- Euripides

#Happiness #Wise #Abundance

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Grief #Grieving

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

#Healing #Optimism #Chance

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
-- Euripides

#Kind #Goodness #All Kinds

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

#Real #Army #Prosperity

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
-- Euripides

#Judging #Tree #Fruit

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
-- Euripides

#Life #Friendship #Inspiration

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
-- Euripides

#Fighting #Literature #Prudent

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
-- Euripides

#Freedom #Liberty #Speak

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
-- Euripides

#Discipline #Joy #Guilty

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

#Inspirational #Happiness #Simple

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
-- Euripides

#Mean #Excellence #Consent

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
-- Euripides

#Fate #Harsh

Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
-- Euripides

#Dream #Joy #Vision

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
-- Euripides

#Safety #Holding On #Security

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Heart

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
-- Euripides

#Wise #Men #Darkness

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
-- Euripides

#Enemy #Your Best Friend #Worst

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
-- Euripides

#Fate #Men #Endurance

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God ...
-- Euripides

#Men #Events #Permission

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

#Future #Doe #Looks

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
-- Euripides

#Silence #Tongue #Truest

Wine enlivens the human soul.
-- Euripides

#Wine #Soul #Culinary

Numbers are a fearful thing.
-- Euripides

#Numbers #Fearful

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
-- Euripides

#Life And Death #Glory

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
-- Euripides

#Life #Trying #Affair

Action achieves more than words.
-- Euripides

#Action #Achieve

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.
-- Euripides

#God #Perfect #Lacking

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
-- Euripides

#Grief #Cures #Young

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

#Wise #Men #Ideas