Top 434 Quotes & Sayings by Euripides - Page 4

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

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

Your very silence shows you agree.

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

Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

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

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

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

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

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

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

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

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

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

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

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.

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

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

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

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

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

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

He who believes needs no explanation.

The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

To generous souls every task is noble.

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

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

I care for riches, to make gifts.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.