Quotes from Euripides

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.

Money is the wise man's religion

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.

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.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life?

My mother was accursed the night she bore me,and I am faint with envy of all the dead.

Love distills desire upon the eyes,love brings bewitching grace into the heartof those he would destroy.I pray that love may never come to mewith murderous intent,in rhythms measureless and wild.Not fire nor stars have stronger boltsthan those of Aphrodite sentby the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven—of all the prizes that a mortal man might win,these, I say, are wisest; these are best.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Would that I were under the cliffs, in the secrethiding-places of the rocks,that Zeus might change me to a winged bird.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honornor any worthiness.

In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Slight not what's near through aiming atwhat's far.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,but we can't bring it to achievement.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

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

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.