Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches...”

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202. “Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.”

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203. “Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.”

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204. “Woman is woman’s natural ally.”

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205. “If the gods do evil then they are not gods.”

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206. “Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

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207. “Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart...”

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208. “I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.”

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209. “It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.”

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210. “Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!”

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211. “It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS.”

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212. “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.”

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213. “Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live – and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”

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

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215. “No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

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216. “Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.”

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217. “In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?”

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218. “Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.”

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219. “Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”

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220. “Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.”

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221. “MEDEA: The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer.”

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222. “You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”

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223. “The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”

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224. “Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings.”

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225. “Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

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226. “Who can stop grief’s avalanche once it starts to roll.”

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227. “Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”

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228. “For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

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229. “But my pain’s a fair price, to take away your smile.”

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230. “Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now.”

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231. “The wavering mind is but a base possession.”

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232. “Old ties give place to new ones.”

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233. “There is no evil as terrible as a woman.”

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234. “Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.”

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235. “Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.”

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236. “Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.”

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237. “All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they’ve less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!”

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238. “Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”

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239. “There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”

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240. “Slight not what’s near through aiming at what’s far.”

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241. “O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.”

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242. “Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.”

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243. “In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”

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244. “Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.”

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245. “Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.”

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246. “The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.”

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247. “Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.”

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248. “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.”

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249. “What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”

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250. “I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night.”

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