Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

204. “Woman is woman’s natural ally.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

207. “What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

211. “Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

213. “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.”

— Euripides

214. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

221. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

224. “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.”

— Euripides

225. “Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

227. “Better a serpent than a stepmother!”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

231. “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.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

237. “If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

243. “To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

248. “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.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

250. “Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

— Euripides