Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides Time cancels young pain. Euripides painyoung 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. Euripides griefrunninggiving Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself] Euripides educationalhatewise Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. Euripides stormseamen Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. Euripides parliamentliterature Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell. Euripides contemplationinspirationmen But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. Euripides debtliteraturepay Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away. Euripides visiondreamjoy Time will bring healing. Euripides healingcourageinspirational Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart. Euripides eyeheartlove Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. Euripides true-evilfaultsbears Bear calamities with meekness. Euripides meeknesscalamitybears Gods should not resemble men in their anger! Euripides shouldmen In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. Euripides meritwisemen Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. Euripides lightearthrelaxation When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will. Euripides yieldflamesgiving 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. Euripides swearingtonguesoul Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. Euripides moderationheaven Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. Euripides daughterpainchildren The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. Euripides citiesmenfirsts
