Quotes from Euripides

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

Wine enlivens the human soul.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

No one who lives in error is free.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

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

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

For a sickness, love is the healthiest