I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EuripidesRead
Prosperity is full of friends.
Interpretation
We often find that when times are good, many people want to be around us.
This quote by Euripides highlights the tendency of people to seek companionship and friendship during prosperous times. It suggests that success and wealth attract social connections, as many wish to associate with those who are thriving, but it also implies that true friends are those who stay by you, regardless of your circumstances.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of community in successful ventures.
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
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