Quotes from Euripides

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Time will bring healing.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

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

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

The God knows when to smile.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.