“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”
“There is the sky, which is all men's together.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”
“One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.”
“Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.”
“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”
“Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.”
“Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.”
“Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.”
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
Source: Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.”
Source: Medea
“Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.”
Source: Medea
“The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.”
Source: Euripides
“Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women
“When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.”
Source: Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts
“To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.”
Source: Euripides
“When good men die their goodness does not perish.”
“It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.”
Source: Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae
“Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.”
Source: Three Great Plays of Euripides
“The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.”
Source: The conversion of Herakles: an essay in Euripidean tragic structure
“Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.”
“Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.”
Source: Euripides
“Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.”
Source: Euripides
“Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
“Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.”
Source: Medea
“Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.”
“Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.”
“Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.”
“Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.”
Source: Medea
“High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
“A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.”
Source: Ten Plays by Euripides
“Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.”
Source: Euripides
“Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
“Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.”
“Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
