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“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”
Euripides
“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
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Euripides
“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”
Euripides
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripides
“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
Euripides
“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
Euripides
“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
Euripides
“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”
Euripides
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Euripides
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Euripides
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
Euripides
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”
Euripides
“To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”
Euripides
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
Euripides
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
Euripides
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
Euripides
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
Euripides
“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”
Euripides
“Much effort, much prosperity.”
Euripides
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
Euripides
“Prosperity is full of friends.”
Euripides
“In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?”
Euripides
“No one is happy all his life long.”
Euripides
“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”
Euripides
“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”
Euripides
“No one who lives in error is free.”
Euripides
“Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.”
Euripides
“'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”
Euripides
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
Euripides
