Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.”

— 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. “Every man is like the company he wont to keep.”

— Euripides

104. “I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”

— Euripides

105. “A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

109. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

113. “God helps him who strives hard.”

— Euripides

114. “Life is short, yet sweet.”

— Euripides

115. “A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.”

— Euripides

116. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

119. “A change is always nice.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

126. “She sings a dark destructive song.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

130. “But words can conquer words.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

134. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

137. “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

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

— Euripides

139. “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

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

— Euripides

141. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

149. “A bad ending follows a bad beginning.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides