Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Your very silence shows you agree.”

— Euripides

52. “The language of truth is simple.”

— Euripides

53. “You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.”

— Euripides

54. “There is safety in numbers.”

— Euripides

55. “This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.”

— Euripides

56. “When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”

— Euripides

57. “The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”

— Euripides

58. “There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”

— Euripides

59. “Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.”

— Euripides

60. “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”

— Euripides

61. “He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

— Euripides

62. “He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.”

— Euripides

63. “Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

— Euripides

64. “The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.”

— Euripides

65. “There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.”

— Euripides

66. “Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”

— Euripides

67. “Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour.”

— Euripides

68. “Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.”

— Euripides

69. “Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.”

— Euripides

70. “Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”

— Euripides

71. “To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.”

— Euripides

72. “The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”

— Euripides

73. “By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won’t bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.”

— Euripides

74. “Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.”

— Euripides

75. “Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

— Euripides

76. “Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.”

— Euripides

77. “Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.”

— Euripides

78. “One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”

— Euripides

79. “Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.”

— Euripides

80. “Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.”

— Euripides

81. “For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”

— Euripides

82. “Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

85. “None wise dares hopeless venture.”

— Euripides

86. “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

— Euripides

87. “Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”

— Euripides

88. “Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.”

— Euripides

89. “I have found power in the mysteries of thought.”

— Euripides

90. “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

91. “It is wise to withhold one’s heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.”

— Euripides

92. “Numbers are a fearful thing.”

— Euripides

93. “Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.”

— Euripides

94. “All is change; all yields its place and goes.”

— Euripides

95. “Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”

— Euripides

96. “A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.”

— Euripides

97. “Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.”

— Euripides

98. “Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.”

— Euripides

99. “It’s human; we all put self interest first.”

— Euripides

100. “Nothing happens to man without the permission of God...”

— Euripides