Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

354. “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

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

— Euripides

356. “It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”

— Euripides

357. “This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.”

— Euripides

358. “Common sense is the best prophet.”

— Euripides

359. “In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.”

— Euripides

360. “Piangi con me, supplica il padre di non uccidere tua sorella: anche i bambini si rendono conto delle sciagure.”

— Euripides

361. “Today’s today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”

— Euripides

362. “How dark are all the ways of god to man!”

— Euripides

363. “Dead men have no victory.”

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364. “Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband’s breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!”

— Euripides

365. “Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.”

— Euripides

366. “It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.”

— Euripides

367. “Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?”

— Euripides

368. “Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?”

— Euripides

369. “Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”

— Euripides

370. “A woman should always stand by a woman.”

— Euripides

371. “Account no man happy till he dies.”

— Euripides

372. “Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”

— Euripides

373. “It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”

— Euripides

374. “For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.”

— Euripides

375. “Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.”

— Euripides

376. “Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.”

— Euripides

377. “I wish you joy. To spend life’s fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.”

— Euripides

378. “That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.”

— Euripides

379. “A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.”

— Euripides

380. “We are not subject to our own wills, our own desires. But to the fates and the fortunes that the gods hand to us. The future is turned before our eyes into wrenching heartache, into ashes and to splinters. From today I know that truly hope is dead. I ask you again, you who watch, how can there ever be any ending than this? First silence. Then darkness.”

— Euripides

381. “Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.”

— Euripides

382. “It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference.”

— Euripides

383. “Is love so small a pain for a woman?”

— Euripides

384. “Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.”

— Euripides

385. “Luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.”

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386. “Time will bring healing.”

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387. “The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.”

— Euripides

388. “We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can’t bring it to achievement.”

— Euripides

389. “To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”

— Euripides

390. “Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.”

— Euripides

391. “Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.”

— Euripides

392. “Gods should not resemble men in their anger!”

— Euripides

393. “To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.”

— Euripides

394. “Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

— Euripides

395. “When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”

— Euripides

396. “The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.”

— Euripides

397. “Time cancels young pain.”

— Euripides

398. “The childless escape much misery.”

— Euripides

399. “Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”

— Euripides

400. “The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.”

— Euripides