Euripides Quotes

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

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.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

The God knows when to smile.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Numbers are a fearful thing.

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

God helps him who strives hard.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

Time will bring healing.

No one is happy all his life long.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

The language of truth is simple.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Common sense is the best prophet.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.