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Famous Euripides Quotes
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
Source: Euripides
“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
Source: Euripides
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”
Source: Iphigenia in Tauris,, alone by the shore
“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
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
“Prosperity is full of friends.”
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
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
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
“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Much effort, much prosperity.”
Source: Euripides
“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“The lucky person passes for a genius.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides