Euripides Quotes


"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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(Related: Life, Balance, Man)

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
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(Related: Soldiers, Will)

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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(Related: Fool, Sense, Talk)

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
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(Related: Future, Learning, Past, Youth)

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."
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(Related: Wisdom)

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
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"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."
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(Related: Virtue, Gold, World)

"Silence is true wisdom's best reply."
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(Related: Wisdom, Silence)

"Prosperity is full of friends."
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(Related: Friends, Prosperity)

"The best of seers is he who guesses well."
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"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."
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(Related: Time, Friend, Deeds, Nothing, Word)

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."
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(Related: Strength, Necessity, Nothing)

"No one who lives in error is free."
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(Related: Error)

"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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(Related: People, Wealth, Acting, Fortune, Law, Will)

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."
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(Related: Nothing, Question)

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
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(Related: Thought, Slavery)

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."
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(Related: Time, Poor, Youth)

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."
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(Related: God, Idea, Man)

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."
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(Related: Difference, Man, Poor)

"No one is happy all his life long."
- Euripides
(Related: Life)

"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore."
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(Related: Soul, Tongue)

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."
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(Related: Courage, Man)

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."
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(Related: Wealth, Gold)

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."
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(Related: God, First, Wishes)

"The bold are helpless without cleverness."
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(Related: Cleverness)

"There is the sky, which is all men's together."
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(Related: Men, Sky)

"There is just one life for each of us: our own."
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(Related: Life)

"The wavering mind is but a base possession."
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(Related: Mind, Possession)

"The lucky person passes for a genius."
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(Related: Genius)

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
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(Related: Life, Love, Pleasure)

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."
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(Related: Quiet)

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."
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(Related: Father, Daughter, Nothing, Old)

"Cleverness is not wisdom."
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(Related: Wisdom, Cleverness)

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
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(Related: Friend, Evil, Man)

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."
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(Related: Men, Son, Needs)

"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."
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(Related: Being, Events, Will)

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."
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(Related: Love, Heaven, Man)

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble."
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(Related: Love, Friends, Trouble)

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes."
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(Related: Danger, Eyes, Man)

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."
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(Related: Men, God, Property, Violence)

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."
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(Related: Chance)

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."
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(Related: Debt)

"Better a serpent than a stepmother!"
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"Authority is never without hate."
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(Related: Authority, Hate)

"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest."
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(Related: Thoughts)

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."
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(Related: Success, Wisdom, Reputation)

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."
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"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
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(Related: Beauty, Husband)

"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
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(Related: Authority, Faces)

"Much effort, much prosperity."
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(Related: Effort, Prosperity)

"Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
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"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."
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(Related: Love, Help)

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."
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(Related: Life, Friend)

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."
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(Related: Fortune, Judgment)

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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(Related: Chance)

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."
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(Related: Living, Tomorrow, Will)

"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"
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(Related: Friend, Misfortune)

"Impudence is the worst of all human diseases."
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"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."
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(Related: Gain, Ignorance)

"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
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(Related: Misery, Wind)

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."
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(Related: Love)

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
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(Related: Happiness, God, Will)

"Leave no stone unturned."
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