Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EuripidesI 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.
EuripidesSlight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EuripidesShort is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EuripidesWhen love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EuripidesWhom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EuripidesTime cancels young pain.
EuripidesLeave no stone unturned.
EuripidesSlow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EuripidesLove is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EuripidesWho so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
EuripidesThere is one thing alonethat stands the brunt of life throughout its course:a quiet conscience.
EuripidesWhen 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.
EuripidesIn case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EuripidesThe day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EuripidesWhoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EuripidesA sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EuripidesTalk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EuripidesI care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
EuripidesEvery man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EuripidesWhat greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EuripidesNever say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EuripidesThe wisest men follow their own direction.
EuripidesWaste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EuripidesSecond thoughts are ever wiser.
Euripides