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"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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Euripides Quotes


"Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” ~Euripides

“Cleverness is not wisdom.” ~Euripides, The Bacchae

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” ~Euripides

“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.” ~Euripides, The Bacchae

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account." ~Euripides

"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves." ~Euripides

"Friends show their love - in times of trouble, not in happiness” ~Euripides

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails." ~Euripides

"He is not a lover who does not love forever." ~Euripides

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." ~Euripides

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.” ~Euripides

"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief” ~Euripides

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” ~Euripides

"Integrity is essential if we are to cope with life's difficulties." ~Euripides

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

"Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves." ~Euripides

"Leave no stone unturned." ~Euripides

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.” ~Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

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

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

"Much effort, much prosperity." ~Euripides

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.” ~Euripides

“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive” ~Euripides, Medea

"Often a noble face hides filthy ways." ~Euripides

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." ~Euripides (480-406 BC)

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." ~Euripides

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

"Silence is an answer to a wise man." ~Euripides

"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate.
Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
~Euripides

"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." ~Euripides

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
~Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

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

“The wisest men follow their own direction.” ~Euripides

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ~Euripides, The Phoenician Women

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.” ~Euripides

"Time will explain it all." ~Euripides

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” ~Euripides

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." ~Euripides

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor." ~Euripides (Electra)

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
~Euripides, Orestes

"Where there is no wine there is no love." ~Euripides

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

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