Euripides Quotes

Numbers are a fearful thing.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

death is the only water to wash away this dirt

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

For the weariest road that man may wend
Is forth fromn the home of his father.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Much effort, much prosperity.

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

Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

And, they tell us, we at home
Live free from danger, they go out to battle: fools!
I'd rather stand three times in the front line than bear
One child.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...

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

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

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.

Oh, say, how call ye this,
To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kiss
Betrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:
'Tis but of all man's inward sicknesses
The vilest, that he knoweth not of shame
Nor pity! Yet I praise him that he came ...
To me it shall bring comfort, once to clear
My heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them ...

Black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

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

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".

Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways
to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

In childbirth grief begins.

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour

Life is short, yet sweet.

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

To have learnt to live on the common level
Is better. No grand life for me,
Just peace and quiet as I grow old.
The middle way, neither great nor mean,
Is best by far, in name and practice.
To be rich and powerful brings no blessing;
Only more utterly
Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

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

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.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait;
To hold a hand uplifted over Hate;
And shall not Loveliness be loved for ever?

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Theseus-

O mankind so deluded! so pointlessly deluded!
Why investigate, study, devise ten thousand technologies yet you do not know this one thing and cannot grasp it: how to teach a mindless man to think.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it
To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?
When the hand knows what it dares,
When thine eyes look into theirs,
Shalt thou keep by tears unblinded
Thy dividing of the slain?
These be deeds Not for thee:
These be things that cannot be!

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

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

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

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

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.

Noble fathers have noble children.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Yes, I can endure guilt, however horrible; The laughter of my enemies I will not endure. Now

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.