Euripides
None can hold fortune still and make it last.Collection: Destiny
Bear calamities with meekness.Collection: Bears
According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.Collection: Success
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.Collection: Gold
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.Collection: Men
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.Collection: Believe
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.Collection: Hate
The best of seers is he who guesses well.Collection: Literature
When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.Collection: Long
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.Collection: Women
The bold are helpless without cleverness.Collection: Risk
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.Collection: Wise
Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.Collection: Mind
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.Collection: Soul
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!Collection: Children
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.Collection: Drinking
The God knows when to smile.Collection: God Knows
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.Collection: Death
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.Collection: Grief
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.Collection: Shade
No one is happy all his life long.Collection: Life
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.Collection: Destiny
There is safety in numbers.Collection: Numbers
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.Collection: Sight
When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.Collection: Husband
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.Collection: Gone
I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.Collection: Thinking
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.Collection: Men
A woman should always stand by a woman.Collection: Should
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.Collection: Beauty
Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.Collection: Home
Too much zeal offends where indirection works.Collection: Too Much
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.Collection: Sex
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.Collection: Life
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Collection: Children
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.Collection: Waiting
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.Collection: Dream
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.Collection: Men
What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?Collection: Women
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.Collection: Sound
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.Collection: Men
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.Collection: Envy
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.Collection: Life
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.Collection: Gone
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.Collection: Toil
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.Collection: Effort
Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.Collection: Heart
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.Collection: Wise