Euripides Inspirational Quotes

No one who lives in error is free.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

The brave venture anything.

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

Much effort, much prosperity.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

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.

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Action achieves more than words.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

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

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

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

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

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

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

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

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

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

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

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.

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

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

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.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

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

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Noble fathers have noble children.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

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.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

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

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

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

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

Leave no stone unturned.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

The language of truth is simple.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

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

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Money is the wise man's religion.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

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

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

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

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

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.