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
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Famous Euripides Quotes
“A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
“Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.”
Source: Iphigenia in Tauris: An English Version
“The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.”
Source: Euripides
“Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.”
Source: Euripides
“What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
“Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”
Source: Euripides
“Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Source: Euripides