Euripides
What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.Collection: Future
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.Collection: Rewards
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.Collection: Brave
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?Collection: Inspirational
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.Collection: Said
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.Collection: Fate
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his griefCollection: Gratitude
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.Collection: Life Is Short
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.Collection: Heart
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.Collection: Strong
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.Collection: Passion
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.Collection: Men
The wife should yield in all things to her lordCollection: Yield
When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.Collection: Song
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.Collection: Daughter
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.Collection: Fate
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.Collection: Sweet
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.Collection: Mankind
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.Collection: Death
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.Collection: Hurt
Woman is woman's natural ally.Collection: Women
God helps him who strives hard.Collection: Helping
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.Collection: Soul
If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.Collection: Way
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.Collection: Inspirational
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.Collection: Judging
What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?Collection: Men
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.Collection: Age
tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!Collection: Heart
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.Collection: Blessed
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.Collection: Stronger
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.Collection: Two Friends
The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.Collection: Men
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.Collection: Tears
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.Collection: Shining
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.Collection: Gossip
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.Collection: Mean
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.Collection: Children
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.Collection: Silence
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.Collection: Trying
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.Collection: Men
In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.Collection: Men
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?Collection: Sad
Prosperity is full of friends.Collection: Literature
Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seersCollection: Judgement