Euripides Ancient Scholar Quotes and Sayings

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

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.

Man’s most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

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

Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today and in fact we have forgotten.

A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker and needs no questioning before he speaks.

A sweet thing for whatever time to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.

Light be the earth upon you lightly rest.

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth Loses the past and is dead for the future.

The day is for honest men the night for thieves.