Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES