Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.”

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

405. “The childless escape much misery.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

408. “When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

410. “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

411. “And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”

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

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

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414. “No one who lives in error is free.”

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

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

— Euripides

417. “Youth holds no society with grief.”

— Euripides

418. “Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.”

— Euripides

419. “Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

421. “How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.”

— Euripides

422. “Wine enlivens the human soul.”

— Euripides

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

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

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425. “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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426. “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?”

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

— Euripides

428. “It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live.”

— Euripides

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

— Euripides

430. “The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”

— Euripides

431. “Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house.”

— Euripides

432. “Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.”

— Euripides

433. “All men know their children mean more than life.”

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

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

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436. “Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.”

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437. “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

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

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439. “Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.”

— Euripides

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

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

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442. “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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443. “Too much zeal offends where indirection works.”

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

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

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

— Euripides

447. “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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448. “Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.”

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

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

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