Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.”

— Euripides

103. “Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.”

— Euripides

104. “Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.”

— Euripides

105. “There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.”

— Euripides

106. “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

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

— Euripides

108. “We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.”

— Euripides

109. “Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.”

— Euripides

110. “The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

— Euripides

111. “God helps him who strives hard.”

— Euripides

112. “Life is short, yet sweet.”

— Euripides

113. “Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them...”

— Euripides

114. “Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.”

— Euripides

115. “Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.”

— Euripides

116. “Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.”

— Euripides

117. “No one is happy all his life long.”

— Euripides

118. “When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.”

— Euripides

119. “A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.”

— Euripides

120. “An ally need not own the land he helps.”

— Euripides

121. “She sings a dark destructive song.”

— Euripides

122. “Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.”

— Euripides

123. “It would not be better if men got what they wanted.”

— Euripides

124. “The man that isn’t jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.”

— Euripides

125. “But words can conquer words.”

— Euripides

126. “Sufficiency’s enough for men of sense.”

— Euripides

127. “None can hold fortune still and make it last.”

— Euripides

128. “Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.”

— Euripides

129. “Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.”

— Euripides

130. “Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?”

— Euripides

131. “Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.”

— Euripides

132. “For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.”

— Euripides

133. “Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.”

— Euripides

134. “I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe.”

— Euripides

135. “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

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

— Euripides

137. “Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature’s ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”

— Euripides

138. “Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

140. “You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

142. “A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”

— Euripides

143. “Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.”

— Euripides

144. “Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

— Euripides

145. “Often a noble face hides filthy ways.”

— Euripides

146. “The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”

— Euripides

147. “Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.”

— Euripides

148. “You don’t know what your life is, nor what you’re doing, nor who you are.”

— Euripides

149. “Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?”

— Euripides

150. “We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”

— Euripides