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Quotes from Euripides

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
~ Euripides
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.
~ Euripides
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
~ Euripides
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
~ Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
~ Euripides
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
~ Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
~ Euripides
Death is a debt we all must pay.
~ Euripides
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
~ Euripides
Much effort, much prosperity.
~ Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
~ Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
~ Euripides
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
~ Euripides
Where there is no wine there is no love.
~ Euripides
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
~ Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
~ Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
~ Euripides
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.
~ Euripides
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
~ Euripides
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
~ Euripides
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
~ Euripides
Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves
~ Euripides
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
~ Euripides
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
~ Euripides