Top 434 Quotes & Sayings by Euripides - Page 3
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Noble fathers have noble children.
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
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.
Where there is no wine there is no love.
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
For the weariest road that man may wend
Is forth fromn the home of his father.
God in heaven has dominion
Over so many events.
He can frustrate what seems inevitable,
And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
Bear calamities with meekness.
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
The language of truth is simple.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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.
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
courage is the gift of character
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
All is change; all yields its place and goes.
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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