Euripides

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The Literature Page Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. EuripidesDo not consider painful what is good for you. EuripidesShort is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripides Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. EuripidesThe 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 wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. EuripidesWhom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. EuripidesYour very silence shows you agree. Euripides Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far. Euripides, 'Rhesus'I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Euripides, 438 B.C.A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Euripides, AegeusThe company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides, AegeusTime will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides, AeolusA second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.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. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C. Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C. Time cancels young pain. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. Euripides, Antigone I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.Leave no stone unturned. Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience. Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

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