Euripides Quotes - Page 9

• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Eurípides

  Wise, Courage, Men

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

  Eurípides

  Women, Evil, Terrible

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• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

  Eurípides

  Sabios, Hombres, Ideas

  "Sisyphus". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

  Eurípides

  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compilado por Jehiel Keeler Hoyt y Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  Eurípides

  Character, Men, Righteous Man

  "Aegeus". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

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• The best of seers is he who guesses well.

  Eurípides

  Literature, Wells, Seers

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• Who knows but life be that which men call death,
  And death what men call life?

  Eurípides

  Death, Men, Life Is

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

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• Gods should not resemble men in their anger!

  Eurípides

  Men, Should

  Euripides, G. S. Kirk (1979). “Bacchae of Euripides”, p.136, CUP Archive

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• Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

  Eurípides

  Judgement, Sound, Seers

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• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

  Eurípides

  Women, Earth, Herbs

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• All is change; all yields its place and goes.

  Eurípides

  Inspirational, Change, Yield

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Eurípides

  Believe, Mad, Awareness

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• Ay, cuánta razón tiene el antiguo dicho: Nosotros, que somos viejos, no somos más que ruido y forma. Como remedos de sueños vamos, Y no tenemos ingenio, aunque nos creamos sabios.

  Eurípides

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

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• Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

  Eurípides

  Revenge, Hate, Love Is

  Euripides (2011). “The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.169, Oxford University Press

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• No es la belleza sino las buenas cualidades, mi niña, lo que mantiene a un marido.

  Eurípides

  Marriage, Beauty, Girl

  Eurípides (1958). "Eurípides: Hécuba, traducción de W. Arrowsmith. Andrómaca, traducción de J. F. Nims. Las troyanas, traducción de R. Lattimore. Ion, traducido por R. F. Willetts".

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• Nadie puede afirmar con seguridad que siga vivo mañana.

  Eurípides

  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

  Eurípides

  Communication, Mouths, Misery

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• Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

  Eurípides

  Sabios, Sabiduría, Hombres

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

  Eurípides

  Sympathy, Men, He Man

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• Your very silence shows you agree.

  Eurípides

  Book, Beer, Silence

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• A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

  Eurípides

  Motivación

  "Melanippe the Wise". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 412 BCE.

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• 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.

  Eurípides

  Daughter, Children, Pain

  Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

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• What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

  Eurípides

  Death, Sorry, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• No apuntar a lo que está cerca, sino a lo que está lejos.

  Eurípides

  Literature, Parliament

  "Rhesus". Play by Euripides, circa 435 BCE.

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• Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

  Eurípides

  Inspiration, Men, Contemplation

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