Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 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. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

120. “A change is always nice.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

126. “She sings a dark destructive song.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

129. “But words can conquer words.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

133. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

136. “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

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

— Euripides

138. “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

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

— Euripides

140. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides