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EURIPIDES QUOTES

Greek dramatist (c. 484 B.C. - 406 B.C.)

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

EURIPIDES, Aegeus [fragment]

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed
Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

EURIPIDES, Fragment

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

EURIPIDES, Antigone

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

EURIPIDES, Alexander [fragment]

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.

EURIPIDES, Medea

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

EURIPIDES, Hippolytus

Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

EURIPIDES, Alcestis

Leave no stone unturned.

EURIPIDES, Heraclidae

Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.

EURIPIDES, Ion

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

EURIPIDES, Medea

Much effort, much prosperity.

EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

EURIPIDES, Aeolus [fragment]

Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life?

EURIPIDES, Phrixus [fragment]

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.

EURIPIDES, The Cyclops

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

EURIPIDES, The Cyclops

The best prophet is common sense.

EURIPIDES, as quoted in Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context

Sanity brings pain
but madness is a vile thing.

EURIPIDES, Hippolytus

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris

Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women,
send them away with all their trouble.
Then children would come from a purer source.

EURIPIDES, Medea

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

EURIPIDES, Ion

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

EURIPIDES, Medea

Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.

EURIPIDES, The Bacchæ

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

EURIPIDES, Alcmene, (fragment)

It's folly
that women measure their happiness
with the pleasures of the bed, but they do.
And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing,
all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

EURIPIDES, Medea

He who believes needs no explanation.

EURIPIDES, Bacchæ

Children are sweet as the buds in spring,
But I've noticed that those who have them
Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

EURIPIDES, Medea

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

EURIPIDES, Æolus (fragment)

He who best enjoys each passing day is truly blest.

EURIPIDES, The Bacchæ

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

EURIPIDES, Medea

Dishonour will not trouble me once I am dead.

EURIPIDES, Alcestis

Small aid is wealth for daily gladness; once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

EURIPIDES, Electra

Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

EURIPIDES, The Bacchæ

Browse Euripides Quotes II

Euripides - a biography.

Euripides and His Tragedies - a biography and analysis of his poetic qualities.

Euripides Monologues - a collection of monologues from his plays.

Euripides: One-Act Plays - a collection of online scripts.

Euripides Poems - a collection of his poetry.

Euripides Bibliography - a bibliography, including list of critical resources.


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