Quotes
Quotes - Euripides
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
The language of truth is simple.
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.
