Euripides
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.Collection: Ideas
An ally need not own the land he helps.Collection: Land
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.Collection: Birthday
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.Collection: Fate
There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.Collection: Women
Better a serpent than a stepmother!Collection: Stepmothers
Women's love is for their men, not for their children.Collection: Children
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.Collection: Kings
Time cancels young pain.Collection: Pain
Time will bring healing.Collection: Inspirational
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.Collection: Honesty
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.Collection: Men
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.Collection: Friendship
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.Collection: Children
The brave venture anything.Collection: Courage
Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.Collection: Answers
The wise with hope support the pains of life.Collection: Wise
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.Collection: Wise
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.Collection: Fate
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.Collection: God
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.Collection: Eye
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.Collection: Sweet
Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!Collection: Voice
Where there is no wine there is no love.Collection: Wine
I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.Collection: Luxury
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.Collection: Wine
God gives each his due at the time allotted.Collection: Giving
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.Collection: Love
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.Collection: Thinking
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.Collection: Heart
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.Collection: Humble
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.Collection: Debt
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.Collection: Decision
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