Euripides Quotes

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

~ Euripides

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

~ Euripides

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

~ Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

~ Euripides

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

~ Euripides

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

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.

~ Euripides

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

~ Euripides

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

~ Euripides

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

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For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

~ Euripides

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

~ Euripides

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

~ Euripides

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

~ Euripides

Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive

~ Euripides

or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours

~ Euripides

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

~ Euripides

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

~ Euripides

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

~ Euripides

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

~ Euripides

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

~ Euripides

Hate is a bottomless cup, I will pour and pour

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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.

~ Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

~ Euripides

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

~ Euripides

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

~ Euripides

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

~ Euripides

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

~ Euripides

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

~ Euripides

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

~ Euripides

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

~ Euripides

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

~ Euripides

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

~ Euripides

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

~ Euripides

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

~ Euripides

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

~ Euripides

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

~ Euripides

It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

~ Euripides

We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

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Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

~ Euripides