Euripides Quotes

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

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

“Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”

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

“Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers”

“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

“Virtue proceeds through effort.”

“Prosperity is full of friends.”

“The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.”

“Let mortal man keep to his ownMortality, and not expect too much.”

“What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.”

“Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.”

“Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.”

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”

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

“Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life?”

“Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.”

“Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.”

“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”