Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

305. “Virtue proceeds through effort.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

307. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

316. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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321. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

332. “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.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

334. “The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.”

— Euripides

335. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

338. “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

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

— Euripides

340. “The bold are helpless without cleverness.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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

— Euripides

344. “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.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

350. “Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”

— Euripides