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Euripides: Quotes

  • Ambition
    Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.Euripides: Rhesus
  • Conscience
    There is one thing alone
    that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
    a quiet conscience.
    Euripides: Hippolytus
  • Goodness
    We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.Euripides: Hippo- lytus
  • Knowledge and Learning
    Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
    Loses the past and is dead for the future.
    Euripides
  • Mental Illness
    Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.Euripides
  • Perseverance and Effort
    To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has,
    is courage in a man.
    Euripides: Heracles
  • Prediction
    The best of seers is he who guesses well.Euripides
  • Success and Failure
    Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.Euripides: Hippolytus
  • The Present
    Today's today. Tomorrow, we may be
    ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
    Euripides: Alcestis
  • Time
    Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.Euripides