A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
Euripides Quotations
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
Time cancels young pain.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Account no man happy till he dies.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
The wisest men follow their own direction.
A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
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.
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.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Leave no stone unturned.
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.
Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.
I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
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.
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.
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
Your very silence shows you agree.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.
Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
Second thoughts are ever wiser.