Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Leave no stone unturned.”

— Euripides

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2. “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.”

— Euripides

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3. “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

— Euripides

4. “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

— Euripides

5. “Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”

— Euripides

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6. “A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.”

— Euripides

7. “Enough is abundance to the wise.”

— Euripides

8. “The wisest men follow their own direction.”

— Euripides

9. “Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand.”

— Euripides

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10. “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

12. “Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

— Euripides

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13. “Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

— Euripides

14. “Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers.”

— Euripides

15. “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

— Euripides

16. “Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

— Euripides

17. “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

— Euripides

18. “A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

— Euripides

19. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

— Euripides

20. “Action achieves more than words.”

— Euripides

21. “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

— Euripides

22. “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn’t getting something or failure to get it; it’s losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

— Euripides

23. “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”

— Euripides

24. “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”

— Euripides

25. “The good and the wise lead quiet lives.”

— Euripides

26. “Much effort, much prosperity.”

— Euripides

27. “Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”

— Euripides

28. “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

— Euripides

29. “No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”

— Euripides

30. “Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.”

— Euripides

31. “Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.”

— Euripides

32. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.”

— Euripides

33. “Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.”

— Euripides

34. “When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

— Euripides

35. “The greatest pleasure of life is love.”

— Euripides

36. “When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.”

— Euripides

37. “Do not consider painful what is good for you.”

— Euripides

38. “Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he’s underground.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

40. “The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”

— Euripides

41. “Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

— Euripides

42. “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

43. “Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.”

— Euripides

44. “Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.”

— Euripides

45. “It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”

— Euripides

46. “Cleverness is not wisdom.”

— Euripides

47. “The brave venture anything.”

— Euripides

48. “When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”

— Euripides

49. “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land.”

— Euripides

50. “Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”

— Euripides