Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

356. “But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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 “The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.”

— Euripides

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

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361. “O gods, spare me the sight of this thankless breed, these politicians who cringe for favors from a screaming mob and do not care what harm they do their friends, providing they can please a crowd! Tell me, on what feeble grounds can you justify your vote of death?”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

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364. “Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.”

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

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

368. “Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.”

— Euripides

369. “They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.”

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

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371. “If one must do a wrong, it’s best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let’s have virtue.”

— Euripides

372. “There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.”

— Euripides

373. “The wife should yield in all things to her lord.”

— Euripides

374. “If some appalling disaster befalls, there’s Always a way for the rich.”

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375. “Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic – they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor – but happy, never.”

— Euripides

376. “Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.”

— Euripides

377. “Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.”

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378. “And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.”

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379. “Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.”

— Euripides

380. “You gave birth to your own death.”

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381. “No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”

— Euripides

382. “The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.”

— Euripides

383. “I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.”

— Euripides

384. “May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won’t be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.”

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385. “The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.”

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386. “Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”

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387. “Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?”

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388. “Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”

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389. “Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?”

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390. “The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and snake-hands coiling round a fruit of agonizing pain.”

— Euripides

391. “Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.”

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392. “Too much zeal offends where indirection works.”

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393. “For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.”

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394. “We’ll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”

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395. “Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.”

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396. “Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.”

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397. “That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune’s course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

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398. “Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”

— Euripides

399. “They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!”

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400. “Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.”

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