Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

354. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

358. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

361. “We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.”

— Euripides

362. “The wise with hope support the pains of life.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

364. “Dead men have no victory.”

— Euripides

365. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

370. “Common sense is the best prophet.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

372. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

377. “Lucky is the man who escapes a storm at sea and finds his way home to safe harbor – the man delivered from hardship. We all compete for wealth and power, and for every thousand hearts a thousand hopes. Some wither, some bear fruit. 910But the one who lives from day to day, finding good where he can: he is happy – he is a lucky man.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

381. “The best of seers is he who guesses well.”

— Euripides

382. “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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

388. “Time cancels young pain.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

390. “Time will bring healing.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

393. “I think that fortune watcheth o’er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

399. “I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”

— Euripides

400. “The childless escape much misery.”

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