Source: Medea and Other Plays
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Famous Euripides Quotes
“The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.”
“The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”
Source: The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus
“Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.”
“To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.”
“Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.”
Source: The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
“Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.”
“A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.”
Source: Euripides
“Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.”
Source: Alcestis, a story of love
“For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.”
“He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.”
“Gods should not resemble men in their anger!”
Source: Bacchae of Euripides
Source: Bacchae of Euripides
“It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.”
Source: Bacchae of Euripides
“When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.”
“Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
Source: The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
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
“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”
Source: Medea
“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women
“Money is the wise man's religion.”
Source: Euripides
“A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.”
Source: Euripides
“This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.”
Source: Euripides
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
“The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.”
Source: Euripides: With an English Translation
“That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.”
Source: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides