Quotes from Euripides

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

The men of old times had little sense;/If you called them fools you wouldn't be far wrong./They invented songs, and all the sweetness of music,/To perform at feasts, banquets, and celebrations;/But no one thought of using/Songs and stringed instruments/To banish the bitterness and pain of life.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

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

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Youth holds no society with grief.

Where there is no wine there is no love.