Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
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
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Euripides
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripides
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
Euripides, 'Rhesus'
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides, 438 B.C.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Euripides, Aegeus
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides, Aegeus
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides,< Aeolus
A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Time cancels young pain.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides, Antigone
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.
Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides, Phoenix
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides, Rhesus, circa 435 B.C.
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Euripides, Temenidae
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides, The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
