Euripides Quotes

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

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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.

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

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

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

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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

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.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

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

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

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