Quotes from Euripides

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

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

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

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever. ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home. ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now? ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.

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

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

O Dionysus, we feel you near, stirring like molten lava under the ravaged earth, flowing from the wounds of your trees in tears of sap, screaming with the rage of your hunted beasts.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Authority is never without hate.

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

Leave no stone unturned.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

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

She sings a dark destructive song.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

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?

Prosperity is full of friends.

Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.

I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe

The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.

God helps him who strives hard.