Euripides
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.Collection: Running
The wisest men follow their own direction.Collection: Inspirational
Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.Collection: Crazy
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.Collection: Wise
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.Collection: Destiny
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.Collection: Men
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.Collection: Silence
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.Collection: God
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.Collection: Work
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Collection: Marriage
Time will unveil all things to posterity.Collection: All Things
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.Collection: Disease
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.Collection: Peace
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.Collection: Dream
The lucky person passes for a genius.Collection: Gambling
Wine enlivens the human soul.Collection: Food
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.Collection: Evil
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.Collection: Funny
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.Collection: Grief
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.Collection: Worst Enemy
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]Collection: Wise
courage is the gift of characterCollection: Character
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.Collection: Hate
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.Collection: Men
The wavering mind is but a base possession.Collection: Decision
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.Collection: Struggle
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.Collection: Sweet
To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.Collection: Son
The childless escape much misery.Collection: Misery
He who believes needs no explanation.Collection: Believe
Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.Collection: Happiness
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.Collection: Women
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.Collection: Ignorance
Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, BlessingsCollection: Mom
The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.Collection: Daughter
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.Collection: Adversity
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.Collection: Coward
Authority is never without hate.Collection: Hate
I care for riches, to make gifts.Collection: Care
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.Collection: Children
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?Collection: Dies
To the worker, God himself lends aid.Collection: Work
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.Collection: Moving
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.Collection: Friendship
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.Collection: Children
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.Collection: Women
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.Collection: Inspiration
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.Collection: Wise