Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. Euripides wicked feet men Nothing's as good as holding on to safety. Euripides security holding-on safety The unrighteous are never really fortunate. Euripides wickedness fortunate A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. Euripides medicine sick clever My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Euripides tongue stills mind What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? Euripides sad pain children Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance. Euripides live-for-today chance life Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides speak time inspirational Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. Euripides heart joy song Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal. Euripides delight littles beauty Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches. Euripides humans beauty That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. Euripides undoing hope men Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. Euripides gambling genius luck Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings Euripides motherhood mom blessing Many a maiden, Euripides dance light air Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. Euripides wine grief sleep Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. Euripides death-penalty guilt revenge I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Euripides sick ease men You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides fate stranger sorrow A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. Euripides dad dream sweet
