Euripides

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Time cancels young pain.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
A 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.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides - The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
Euripides - Orestes (408 BC)
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Euripides - Phoenix
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides - Phrixus
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides - 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides - Temenidae
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
Euripides - Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides - Aegeus
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Euripides - Electra, 413 B.C.
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 - Aegeus
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

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 Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides - Aeolus
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Your very silence shows you agree.
Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
Euripides - Phrixus
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C.
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Euripides - Alexander
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
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.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

- Euripides