Euripides
Found 59 thoughts of Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
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He is wise that is wise to himself.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
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Character is a stamp of good repute on a person.
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