Filter quotes by topic
Famous Euripides Quotes
“Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”
Source: Bacchae of Euripides
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
Source: Medea
“Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.”
Source: Euripides
“If the gods do evil then they are not gods.”
Source: The Trojan women
“The gift of a bad man can bring no good.”
Source: Euripides
“I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.”