Quotes by Euripides

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”

“The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”

“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.”

“A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.”

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”

“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”

“Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.”

“Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.”

“Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.”

“Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.”

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”