Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Euripides

103. “A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

107. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

111. “Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”

— Euripides

112. “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

113. “None wise dares hopeless venture.”

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

120. “She sings a dark destructive song.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

123. “But words can conquer words.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

125. “Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

127. “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

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

— Euripides

129. “And I’m a woman made of sorrow.”

— Euripides

130. “Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.”

— Euripides

131. “You women are all the same, if bed’s all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there’s any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell’s let loose.”

— Euripides

132. “This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

134. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

138. “The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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150. “We are not subject to our own wills, our own desires. But to the fates and the fortunes that the gods hand to us. The future is turned before our eyes into wrenching heartache, into ashes and to splinters. From today I know that truly hope is dead. I ask you again, you who watch, how can there ever be any ending than this? First silence. Then darkness.”

— Euripides