Quotes from Euripides
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
- Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.
- Euripides
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.
- Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Euripides
My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.
- Euripides
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
- Euripides
Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.
- Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Euripides
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
- Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
- Euripides
What is wisdom? What gift of the godsis held in glory like this:to hold your hand victoriousover the heads of those you hate?Glory is precious forever.
- Euripides