Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”

— Euripides

252. “It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

— Euripides

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253. “Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.”

— Euripides

254. “There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

— Euripides

255. “There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.”

— Euripides

256. “If I could remake the world, I’d banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.”

— Euripides

257. “It’s folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.”

— Euripides

258. “Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.”

— Euripides

259. “Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.”

— Euripides

260. “Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”

— Euripides

261. “Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”

— Euripides

262. “Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.”

— Euripides

263. “O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”

— Euripides

264. “Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.”

— Euripides

265. “Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father’s heart when he delivers to another’s house a child, the object of his tender care.”

— Euripides

266. “Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.”

— Euripides

267. “Women’s love is for their men, not for their children.”

— Euripides

268. “In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

269. “High honors are sweet To a man’s heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.”

— Euripides

270. “It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.”

— Euripides

271. “Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.”

— Euripides

272. “When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.”

— Euripides

273. “I’d three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”

— Euripides

274. “I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”

— Euripides

275. “To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo’s son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two – anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.”

— Euripides

276. “Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.”

— Euripides

277. “Who then will dare to say I’m weak or timid? No, they’ll say I’m loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.”

— Euripides

278. “The life of men is painful.”

— Euripides

279. “O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!”

— Euripides

280. “Silence and chaste reserve is woman’s genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.”

— Euripides

281. “I have pondered on the causes of a life’s shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind’s quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can’t bring it to achievement.”

— Euripides

282. “If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.”

— Euripides

283. “What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?”

— Euripides

284. “What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.”

— Euripides

285. “Old loves are dropped when new ones come.”

— Euripides

286. “It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.”

— Euripides

287. “My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.”

— Euripides

288. “The God knows when to smile.”

— Euripides

289. “Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.”

— Euripides

290. “Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

— Euripides

291. “The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.”

— Euripides

292. “Women don’t like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.”

— Euripides

293. “See, how strong love overwhelms us. See, how it wounds and destroys and yet when Aphrodite wants to soothe, nothing cures as love cures. So, my love, shoot me gently, barely break my skin with your terrible arrows.”

— Euripides

294. “I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.”

— Euripides

295. “Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.”

— Euripides

296. “A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.”

— Euripides

297. “Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.”

— Euripides

298. “The lucky person passes for a genius.”

— Euripides

299. “The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.”

— Euripides

300. “I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.”

— Euripides