Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I was foolish and young, before that, viewing the matter closely, I saw what it is to beget children.”

— Euripides

402. “Love’s all in all to women.”

— Euripides

403. “Bear calamities with meekness.”

— Euripides

404. “The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.”

— Euripides

405. “The unrighteous are never really fortunate.”

— Euripides

406. “The pain is good, as long as you’re not laughing.”

— Euripides

407. “This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.”

— Euripides

408. “There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.”

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409. “If women didn’t exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.”

— Euripides

410. “Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.”

— Euripides

411. “Terrible things breed in broken hearts. And I see in my mistress’ eyes a fury that wont be calmed.”

— Euripides

412. “I am a curse upon your house as well.”

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413. “My legs are trembling, but I won’t fall.”

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414. “Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.”

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415. “Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.”

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416. “For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.”

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417. “One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer.”

— Euripides

418. “In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love.”

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419. “Would ye be wise, ye Cities, fly from war!”

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420. “O black night, you who nurse he golden stars! In you I go, bearing this jar poised on my head, to fetch water from springs of rivers; not that any need pushes me to this point, but so I may show the gods the insolence of Aegisthus, and pour out my griefs under huge heaven to my father’s spirit. My mother, Tyndareos’ daughter, lost in wickedness, to show Aegisthus other sons, she treats me and O restes both s bastards of her house.”

— Euripides

421. “Tis dreadful for words and strife to happen between brothers, when they fall into dispute.”

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422. “A terrible thing it is to be a mother, and it bears a great endearment, and one common to all, so as to toil on behalf of their children.”

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423. “And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom.”

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424. “What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.”

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425. “Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

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426. “Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.”

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427. “If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.”

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428. “To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.”

— Euripides

429. “What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

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430. “To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.”

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431. “Mortal fate is hard. You’d best get used to it.”

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432. “Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”

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433. “The variety of all things forms a pleasure.”

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434. “When good men die their goodness does not perish.”

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

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436. “Virtue proceeds through effort.”

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

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438. “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.”

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

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440. “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.”

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

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442. “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.”

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

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

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445. “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.”

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446. “Common sense is the best prophet.”

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

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

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

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450. “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.”

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