Quote

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Euripides

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Never
Stable
Ill
Gotten
Honesty
Wealth

More quotes by Euripides

Image
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
Euripides
Image
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
Euripides
Image
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Euripides
Image
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
Image
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
Euripides
Image
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
Euripides
Image
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
Euripides
Image
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
Euripides
Image
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
Euripides
Image
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.
Euripides
Image
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides
Image
No one who lives in error is free.
Euripides
Image
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
Euripides
Image
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
Image
tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
Euripides
Image
Try first thyself, and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
Image
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
Euripides
Image
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides
Image
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides
Image
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Euripides