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. Euripides More Quotes by Euripides More Quotes From Euripides Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts? Euripides running inspirational life A man who has been in danger, Euripides fear men promise Who knows but life be that which men call death, Euripides life-is men death Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides youth grief time He who believes needs no explanation. Euripides explanation believe needs I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. Euripides criminal-mind stronger evil tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart! Euripides teeth doe heart Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure. Euripides agony special attention Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory. Euripides loyal glory hero There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. Euripides success character life In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. Euripides cases judging sides Authority is never without hate. Euripides despise hate authority The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides sin father children It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory. Euripides life-and-death dies glory Nothing happens to man without the permission of God. Euripides events permission men The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool. Euripides endurance fate men Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. Euripides wisdom wise heart Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God. Euripides consent excellence mean It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. Euripides wise home men What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death. Euripides sorry men death