Euripides Quotes
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Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.
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Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.
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Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
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When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.
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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
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Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.
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Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
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Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.
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Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
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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.
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Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
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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.
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
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Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
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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.