Euripides
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.Collection: Drinking
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.Collection: Hate
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.Collection: Song
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.Collection: Light
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.Collection: Happiness
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.Collection: Deep Love
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.Collection: Pleasure
Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pourCollection: Hate
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.Collection: Math
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.Collection: Courage
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.Collection: Yield
Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.Collection: Pain
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.Collection: Men
Youth holds no society with grief.Collection: Time
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.Collection: Healing
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.Collection: Excess
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.Collection: Men
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.Collection: Happiness
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.Collection: Motivational
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.Collection: Grief
To generous souls every task is noble.Collection: Generosity
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.Collection: Depression
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.Collection: Wise
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.Collection: Hate
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.Collection: Death
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.Collection: Men
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!Collection: Men
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.Collection: Sadness
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.Collection: Prayer
All is change; all yields its place and goes.Collection: Inspirational
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.Collection: Character
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Men
Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.Collection: Communication
Delusive hope still points to distant good.Collection: Hope
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.Collection: Sweet
Your very silence shows you agree.Collection: Book
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.Collection: Sympathy
Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.Collection: Wise
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.Collection: Revenge
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.Collection: Wise
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.Collection: Wise
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.Collection: Literature
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.Collection: Men
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.Collection: Wise
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.Collection: Life
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.Collection: Hurt
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.Collection: Husband
We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.Collection: Believe