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

— Euripides

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

— Euripides

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

— Euripides

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

— Euripides

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

— Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

— Euripides

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

— Euripides

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

— Euripides

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

— Euripides

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

— Euripides