Memorable Quotes and quotations from EuripidesEuripides Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C. - My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged. Euripides - - Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides - The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C. - Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C. - When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness. Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C. - 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 - - Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. Euripides - Alexander - Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides - - Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C. - In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. Euripides - - Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak. Euripides - Aegeus - A bad beginning makes a bad ending. Euripides - Phoenix - Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. Euripides - - Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C. - The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. Euripides - Hippolytus, 428 B.C. - There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience. Euripides - - Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - Time cancels young pain. Euripides - - Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. Euripides - - The wisest men follow their own direction. Euripides - Phrixus - Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. Euripides - - Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides - Phrixus - The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. Euripides - Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C. - Leave no stone unturned. 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 - - Human excellence means nothing unless it works with the consent of God. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. Euripides - - Your very silence shows you agree. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. Euripides - Aegeus - The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. Euripides - Alcestis, 438 B.C. - Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. Euripides - - Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Euripides - Electra, 413 B.C. - I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. Euripides - - Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides - The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C. - Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. Euripides - Medea, 431 B.C. - There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. Euripides - 438 B.C. - I have found power in the mysteries of thought. Euripides - Orestes (408 BC) - Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides - Temenidae - When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Euripides - Aeolus - Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. |
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