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

— 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. “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

112. “None wise dares hopeless venture.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

120. “She sings a dark destructive song.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

122. “But words can conquer words.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

125. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

133. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

139. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

148. “There be many shapes of mystery; And many things God brings to be, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought. So hath it fallen here.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

150. “The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.”

— Euripides