Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
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Famous Euripides Quotes
“Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Source: Medea
“In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis, translated by R. Lattimore. The Medea, translated by R. Warner. The Heracleidae, translated by R. Glàdstone. Hippolytus, translated by D. Grene
“According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.”
Source: Ten Plays by Euripides
“The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.”
Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker
“I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.”
Source: Medea
“If the gods do evil then they are not gods.”
Source: The Trojan women
“For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.”
Source: Euripides
“The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.”
Source: Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae
“None can hold fortune still and make it last.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”
Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
Source: The Alcestis
“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
“I have found power in the mysteries of thought.”
Source: The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version
“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”