EURIPIDES QUOTES
Greek dramatist (c. 484 B.C. - 406 B.C.)
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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EURIPIDES, Aegeus [fragment]
- Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed
- Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES, Alexander [fragment]
- Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
- A herb most bruised is woman.
Second thoughts are ever wiser.
Old men’s prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES, Aeolus [fragment]
- Who knows but life be that which men call death,
- And death what men call life?
EURIPIDES, Phrixus [fragment]
If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
The best prophet is common sense.
EURIPIDES, as quoted in Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context
- Sanity brings pain
- but madness is a vile thing.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
Glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPEDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
- If I could remake the world, I'd banish women,
- send them away with all their trouble.
- Then children would come from a purer source.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
EURIPIDES, Alcmene, (fragment)
- It's folly
- that women measure their happiness
- with the pleasures of the bed, but they do.
- And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing,
- all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
He who believes needs no explanation.
- Children are sweet as the buds in spring,
- But I've noticed that those who have them
- Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES, Æolus (fragment)
He who best enjoys each passing day is truly blest.
- The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
- Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Dishonour will not trouble me once I am dead.
Small aid is wealth for daily gladness; once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
- Do not mistake the rule of force
- for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
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