Euripides was a Greek playwright and poet who lived in the 5th century BC. He is one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles. He is known for writing plays that explored complex themes such as the role of women in society and the human condition. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Euripides on love, death, wisdom.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Better a serpent than a stepmother!
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!
Euripides inspirational quote
Euripides Image Quotes
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. — Euripides
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. — Euripides
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. — Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. — Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. — Euripides
Euripides Short Quotes
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
The language of truth is simple.
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides Quotes About Love
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness. — Euripides
He is not a lover who does not love forever. — Euripides
The greatest pleasure of life is love. — Euripides
I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night.
Venus, thy eternal sway
All the race of men obey.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
He is not a lover who does not love for ever. — Euripides
Where there is no wine there is no love. — Euripides
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. — Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Friends show their love in times of trouble... — Euripides
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. — Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. — Euripides
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love. — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Death
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. — Euripides
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear. — Euripides
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. — Euripides
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge. — Euripides
Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life? — Euripides
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. — Euripides
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? — Euripides
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death. — Euripides
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory. — Euripides
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier. — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Wisdom
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. — Euripides
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. — Euripides
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. — Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply. — Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself] — Euripides
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. — Euripides
We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts. — Euripides
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. — Euripides
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Friendship
Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows. — Euripides
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land. — Euripides
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. — Euripides
It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends. — Euripides
In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends. — Euripides
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Friends
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. — Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. — Euripides
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. — Euripides
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man. — Euripides
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. — Euripides
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine. — Euripides
Prosperity is full of friends. — Euripides
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. — Euripides
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend. — Euripides
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend? — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Life
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. — Euripides
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. — Euripides
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. — Euripides
There is just one life for each of us: our own. — Euripides
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. — Euripides
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. — Euripides
The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure. — Euripides
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. — Euripides
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. — Euripides
Euripides Quotes About Wise
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. — Euripides
The wisest men follow their own direction. — Euripides
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. — Euripides
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. — Euripides
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. — Euripides
Money is the wise man's religion. — Euripides
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness. — Euripides
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. — Euripides
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought. — Euripides
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. — Euripides
Euripides Famous Quotes And Sayings
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. — Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. — Euripides
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. — Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. — Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. — Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. — Euripides
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. — Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. — Euripides
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform. — Euripides
Noble fathers have noble children. — Euripides
God gives each his due at the time allotted. — Euripides
Much effort, much prosperity. — Euripides
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. — Euripides
The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength. — Euripides
There is the sky, which is all men's together. — Euripides
Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. — Euripides
But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought. — Euripides
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. — Euripides
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman. — Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. — Euripides
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate. — Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. — Euripides
The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely. — Euripides
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense. — Euripides
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. — Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. — Euripides
To generous souls every task is noble. — Euripides
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. — Euripides
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. — Euripides
Often a noble face hides filthy ways. — Euripides
The bold are helpless without cleverness. — Euripides
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. — Euripides
There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. — Euripides
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. — Euripides
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one. — Euripides
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. — Euripides
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. — Euripides
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. — Euripides
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. — Euripides
The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears. — Euripides
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. — Euripides
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. — Euripides
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. — Euripides
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. — Euripides
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. — Euripides
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. — Euripides
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. — Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. — Euripides
The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. — Euripides
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself. — Euripides
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. — Euripides
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. — Euripides
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments. — Euripides
Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. — Euripides
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. — Euripides
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. — Euripides
Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. — Euripides
The best of seers is he who guesses well. — Euripides
Life Lessons by Euripides
Euripides teaches us to question the status quo and to think for ourselves. He encourages us to be open-minded and to challenge authority when necessary.
He also teaches us to be compassionate and understanding of others, regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs.
Lastly, Euripides encourages us to be honest and true to ourselves, and to never give up on our dreams and aspirations.
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