The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
– Euripides
Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.
– Euripides
In a case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.
– Euripides
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
– Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
– Euripides
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
– Euripides
Today’s today. Tomorrow, we may be ourselves gone down the drain of eternity.
– Euripides
A coward turns away. But a brave man’s choice is danger.
– Euripides
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
– Euripides
Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
– Euripides
Leave no stone unturned.
– Euripides
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
– Euripides
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.
– Euripides
What is wisdom? What gift of the gods is held in glory like this: to hold your hand victorious
over the heads of those you hate? Glory is precious forever.
– Euripides
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
– Euripides
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
– Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
– Euripides
What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.
– Euripides
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven – of all the prizes that a mortal
man might win, these, I say, are wisest. These are the best.
– Euripides