Famous Quotes by Euripides

Below are famous quotes by Euripides - Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC).

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Your very silence shows you agree.

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