Quotes from Euripides

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

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

No one is happy all his life long.

The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

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

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Leave no stone unturned.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.