Euripides Quotes

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

How dark are all the ways of god to man!

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Only a madman would give good for evil

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

The good and wise lead quite lives

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

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, l

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

The myth is not my own

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.

Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

All is change all yields its place and goes.

It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.

A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger.

The coward despairs.

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

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

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.