Quotes by Euripides

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”

“The best of seers is he who guesses well.”

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

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

“Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.”

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

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”

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

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

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

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”

“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

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

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

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