04 March 2023

Week 2023-09: Euripides - Collected Quotes

"A bad beginning makes a bad ending." (Euripides)

"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger." (Euripides)

"All is change; all yields its place and goes." (Euripides)

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." (Euripides)

"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest." (Euripides)

"Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own - but only that; the rest belongs to chance." (Euripides)

"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep." (Euripides)

"Fortune always will confer an aura
Of worth, unworthily; and in this world
The lucky person passes for a genius."" Euripedes

"Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps." (Euripides)

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

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

"I loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief." (Euripides)

"I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too." (Euripides)

"It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends." (Euripides)

"It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn." (Euripides)

"Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears." (Euripides)

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." (Euripides)

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow." (Euripides)

"No one is happy all his life long." (Euripides)

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." (Euripides)

"One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that." (Euripides)

"Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!" (Euripides)

"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends." (Euripides)

"Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end." (Euripides)

"Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far." (Euripides)

"Sufficiency's enough for men of sense." (Euripides)

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish." (Euripides)

"Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes." (Euripides)

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

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives." (Euripides)

"The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny." (Euripides)

"The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence." (Euripides)

"There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours." (Euripides)

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change." (Euripides)

"There is just one life for each of us: our own." (Euripides)

"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends." (Euripides)

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

"Try first thyself, and after call in God,/ For to the worker God himself lends aid." (Euripides)

"We pay a high price for being intelligent. Wisdom hurts." (Euripides)

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