54 Quotes By Euripides


Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides on age

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

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.
Euripides on best

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.
Euripides on best

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides on best

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

The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Euripides on best

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

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides on death

Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
Euripides on forgiveness

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides on friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Euripides on friendship

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

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Euripides on god

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides on god

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides on god

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

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

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.
Euripides on great

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides on happiness