Euripides
In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?
- Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
- Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm.
- Euripides
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
- Euripides
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
- Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
- Euripides
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- Euripides
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
- Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
- Euripides
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
- Euripides
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
- Euripides
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Euripides
