Source: Electra
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Famous Euripides Quotes
Source: Herakles
“All of our human life is full of pain and there is no rest from toil”
Source: Iphigenia in Aulis
Source: Medea
“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
Source: Three plays
“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.”
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Source: Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians
“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
Source: Medea
“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.”