Euripides
Leave no stone unturned.Collection: Wisdom
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.Collection: Chance
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.Collection: Chance
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.Collection: Fathers
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.Collection: Food
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.Collection: Good
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.Collection: Death
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.Collection: God
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.Collection: Time
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.Collection: Courage
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.Collection: Marriage
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.Collection: Happiness
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.Collection: Best
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.Collection: God
There is the sky, which is all men's together.Collection: Nature
Cleverness is not wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Great
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.Collection: Love
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.Collection: Love
Much effort, much prosperity.Collection: Success
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.Collection: Friendship
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.Collection: War
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.Collection: Friendship
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.Collection: Friendship
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.Collection: Future
He is not a lover who does not love forever.Collection: Love
The greatest pleasure of life is love.Collection: Love
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.Collection: Happiness
There is just one life for each of us: our own.Collection: Life
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.Collection: Learning
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.Collection: Forgiveness
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.Collection: Age
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.Collection: Strength
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.Collection: Wisdom
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.Collection: Grief
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.Collection: Honesty
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.Collection: Freedom
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.Collection: Relationship
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.Collection: Men
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.Collection: Friendship
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.Collection: Freedom
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.Collection: Missing
It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.Collection: Wise
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.Collection: Wise
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.Collection: True Evil
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.Collection: Freedom
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.Collection: Judging
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.Collection: Wise