Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”

— Euripides

252. “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

253. “What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

254. “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.”

— Euripides

255. “To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.”

— Euripides

256. “Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”

— Euripides

257. “Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

264. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

267. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

272. “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

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

— Euripides

274. “Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

277. “When good men die their goodness does not perish.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

280. “The variety of all things forms a pleasure.”

— Euripides

281. “In childbirth grief begins.”

— Euripides

282. “Delusive hope still points to distant good.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

284. “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

285. “The life of men is painful.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

291. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

294. “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

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

— Euripides

296. “The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

299. “The God knows when to smile.”

— Euripides

300. “Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”

— Euripides