Euripides Quotes
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Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
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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.
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The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
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Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.
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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.
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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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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
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Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
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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.
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In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?