Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides marriage pain joy Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. Euripides circumstances men Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. Euripides waste husband grieving The best of seers is he who guesses well. Euripides seers wells literature To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender. Euripides daughter sweet father No one is happy all his life long. Euripides happiness life long A bad ending follows a bad beginning. Euripides motivational Venus, thy eternal sway Euripides race men life Life is short, yet sweet. Euripides life-is-short sweet life Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them. Euripides mad awareness believe Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. Euripides inevitable arms heart That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. Euripides foundation strong thinking God helps him who strives hard. Euripides strife strive helping The God knows when to smile. Euripides god-knows knows He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep. Euripides laughter sleep blood Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force. Euripides true-power mistake men Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed. Euripides wine blessed son I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Euripides knees freedom feet The wavering mind is but a base possession. Euripides decision literature mind I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief Euripides gratitude grief grieving
