Euripides Quotes

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

An honest man is always a child.

Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.

Every man is like the company he keeps.

He who lets go of his desires, achieves peace.

Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a no friend who is flawless.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

Time will explain it all.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

The eyes of an arrogant man are upon others; the eyes of a conceited man are only upon himself.

What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes mad.

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

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

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.

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

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To take part in the Christmas festivities and, after eating and drinking well, to escape on your own far away in the forest, in the cold and the snow, and to meditate on the regeneration of the world.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

The only hope of mortals is to cease to multiply when they are wise.

When good times have left, evil times follow.

Waste not fresh tears over ancient griefs.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.