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Euripides Quotes: 14

  • Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  • Much effort, much prosperity.

  • The greatest pleasure of life is love.

  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

    The Bacchae
  • Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

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

    Medea
  • The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

    Medea and Other Plays
  • Cleverness is not wisdom.

    The Bacchae
  • When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  • Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  • One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  • The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

  • Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

  • He is not a lover who does not love forever.