“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
― Euripides
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
― Euripides
“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”
― Euripides
“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”
― Euripides
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
― Euripides
“The bold are helpless without cleverness.”
― Euripides
“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”
― Euripides
“’Twas but my tongue, ’twas not my soul that swore.”
― 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
“Leave no stone unturned.”
― Euripides
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides
“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”
― Euripides
“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
― Euripides
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
― Euripides
“God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.”
― Euripides
“The best of seers is he who guesses well.”
― Euripides
“Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.”
― Euripides
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
― Euripides
“There is the sky, which is all men’s together.”
― Euripides
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.”
― Euripides
“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”
― Euripides
“Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.”
― Euripides
“Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.”
― Euripides
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
― Euripides
“The lucky person passes for a genius.”
― Euripides
“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”
― Euripides
“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
― Euripides
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
― Euripides
“Authority is never without hate.”
― Euripides
“Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”
― Euripides
“Much effort, much prosperity.”
― Euripides
“In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?”
― Euripides
“When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
― Euripides
“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
― Euripides
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
― Euripides
“It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
― Euripides
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
― Euripides
“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
― Euripides
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
― Euripides
“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”
― Euripides
“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
“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
― Euripides
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
― Euripides
“Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.”
― Euripides
“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”
― Euripides
“Prosperity is full of friends.”
― Euripides
“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
― Euripides
“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
― Euripides
“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
― Euripides
“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”
― Euripides
“Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.”
― Euripides
“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
― Euripides
“This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”
― Euripides
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
― Euripides
“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.”
― Euripides
“There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.”
― Euripides
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
― Euripides
“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”
― Euripides
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
― Euripides
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
― Euripides
“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
― Euripides
“Luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.”
― Euripides
“Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.”
― Euripides
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”
― Euripides
“No one who lives in error is free.”
― Euripides
“No one is happy all his life long.”
― Euripides
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
― Euripides
“Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.”
― Euripides
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