Euripides481–407 BC- Frg. 734 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Hippolytus (428 B.C.), l. 435.- Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 612 (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1902)
- Phoenissae (c. 409 BC), l. 392 (tr. Elizabeth Wyckoff, 1958)
I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.
Cyclops, ll. 334–335 (ed. B. E. Stevenson, 1948)Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Frg. 133 (Cassell’s, 1907)- Phœnissæ. Frag. 809. Reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
- Frg. 32 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Medea (431 BC), l. 964 (Cassell’s, 1907)
- Pirithous.
- Bacchae, ll. 882–884 (Bartlett’s, 14th ed. 1968)
- Frg. 205.3 (Bartlett’s, 1892); cf. Davenant
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Frg. 7 (Bartlett’s, 9th ed. 1892)Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Frg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
Often credited to Euripides
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