Quotes by Euripides

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

"The best of seers is he who guesses well."

"Silence is true wisdom's best reply."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

"The greatest pleasure of life is love."

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

"There is just one life for each of us: our own."

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

"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."

"We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement."

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."

"Forgive, son men are men they needs must err."

"The bold are helpless without cleverness."

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."

"Much effort, much prosperity."

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

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience."

"Today's today. Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity."

"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."

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"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."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."