Euripides Quotes

Euripides Quote: This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Euripides (Medea, 431 BCE)

God helps him who strives hard.

Euripides (Eumenidoe)

It was but my tongue, It was not my soul that swore.

Euripides (Hippolytus, 428 BCE)

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides (The Suppliants, 423 BCE)

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Euripides (Pirithous)

Authority is never without hate.

Euripides (Ion, 421 BCE - 408 BCE)

Pride breeds hatred everywhere.

Euripides (Hippolyus, 428 BCE)

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Euripides (Helen, 412 BCE)

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Euripides (Alcestis, 438 BCE)

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

Euripides (Meleager)

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

Euripides

Never say that marriage has more joy than pain.

Euripides (Alcestis, 438 BCE)

Death is a debt we all must pay.

Euripides (Alcestis, 438 BCE)

He is not a lover who does not love forever. 

Euripides (The Trojan Women)

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. 

Euripides

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

Euripides (Andromeda)

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides (Antigone)

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.

Euripides (Rhesus)

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides (The Bacchae)

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides (Alcestis, 438 BCE)

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides (Hippolytus, 428 BCE)

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

Euripides (Iphigenia in Tauris, 414 BCE)

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Euripides (Quoted in The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides, 1958)

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

Euripides (Aeolus)

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Euripides (Aegeus)

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripides

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides (Antiope)

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Euripides (Phrixus)

A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Euripides (Alcestis, 438 BCE)

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Euripides Biography

Born: 480 BCE
Died: 406 BCE

Euripides was a Greek tragedian. Alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles he is one of the three great Athenian tragedians. Euripides has had an influence on drama throughout history.

Notable Works

Alcestis (438 BCE)
Medea (431 BCE)
Heracleidae (c. 430 BCE)
The Suppliants (423 BCE)
Iphigenia in Tauris (414 BCE)
Orestes (408 BCE)
Bacchae (405 BCE)

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