Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

303. “The God knows when to smile.”

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

306. “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

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

— Euripides

308. “In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.”

— Euripides

309. “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

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

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311. “A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.”

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312. “Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.”

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313. “Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!”

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314. “Virtue proceeds through effort.”

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

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316. “If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.”

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

— Euripides

318. “Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.”

— Euripides

319. “Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.”

— Euripides

320. “It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.”

— Euripides

321. “We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

323. “Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.”

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

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325. “The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”

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326. “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

327. “God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.”

— Euripides

328. “In life, the worst disasters come from passion.”

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329. “Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

331. “In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it’s quite a different story.”

— Euripides

332. “We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.”

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333. “To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He’ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.”

— Euripides

334. “Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.”

— Euripides

335. “Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.”

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336. “Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.”

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337. “Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.”

— Euripides

338. “I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.”

— Euripides

339. “In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.”

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340. “Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.”

— Euripides

341. “If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.”

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342. “To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.”

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343. “Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.”

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344. “If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.”

— Euripides

345. “Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.”

— Euripides

346. “When someone isn’t seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.”

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347. “My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.”

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348. “In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.”

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349. “But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”

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350. “Apollo, Apollo – but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.”

— Euripides