Quotes by Euripides

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friends prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. Hell cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Your very silence shows you agree.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till youve heard the other side.

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.

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.

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 wont bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I have pondered on the causes of a lifes shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the minds quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we cant bring it to achievement.

We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

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

Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.