Quotes from Euripides

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.