Quotes from Euripides

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

I would win my way to the coast,apple-bearing Hesperian coastof which the minstrels sing,where the Lord of the Oceandenies the voyager further sailing,and fixes the solemn limit of Heavenwhich giant Atlas upholds.There the streams flow with ambrosiaby Zeus's bed of love,and holy Earth, the giver of life,yields to the gods rich blessedness.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Today's today. Tomorrow, we may beourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

You love the daylight: do you think yourfather does not?

Yet do I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

The day for honest men, the night for thieves.

Time cancels young pain.

An old man weds a tyrant, not a wife.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost.

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.

Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetrywith which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grimKing's dog could not prevent me thenfrom carrying you up into the fields of light.

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.