Quotes from Euripides

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

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

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Noble fathers have noble children.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Men are men, they needs must err.

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

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.