Euripides Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

  Euripides

  Character, Gold, Literature

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “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

  Freedom, Law, People

• The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

  Euripides

  Character, Men, Righteous Man

  "Aegeus". Play by Euripides, 431 BCE.

• Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

• Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

  Euripides

  Honesty, Wealth, Ill

• For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Pride, May

• If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

  Euripides

  Way, Wealth, Rich

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

  Euripides

  Wealth

  Phoenissae, l.558.

• When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

  Euripides

  Punishment, Wealth

• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  Euripides

  Men, Sick, Ease

  Euripides (2012). “The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse”, p.41, tredition

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