Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Of these, eighteen or nineteen have survived more or less complete (Rhesus is suspect). These Euripides quotes will motivate you.
Best Euripides Quotes
- “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” ~ Euripides
- “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” ~ Euripides
- “A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” ~ Euripides
- “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn’t getting something or failure to get it; it’s losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” ~ Euripides
- “A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” ~ Euripides
- “No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.” ~ Euripides
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“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” ~ Euripides
- “Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.” ~ Euripides
- “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” ~ Euripides
- “Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.” ~ Euripides
- “The good and the wise lead quiet lives.” ~ Euripides
“It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.” ~ Euripides -
“Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.” ~ Euripides
- “I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live.” ~ Euripides”We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.” ~ Euripides
- “We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.” ~ Euripides
- “Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.” ~ Euripides
- “Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” ~ Euripides
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“Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.” ~ Euripides
- “There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.” ~ Euripides
- “The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.” ~ Euripides
- “We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.” ~ 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
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“Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.” ~ Euripides
- “I sacrifice to no god save myself – And to my belly, greatest of deities.” ~ Euripides
- “You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard, and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.” ~ Euripides
- “Common sense is the best prophet.” ~ Euripides
- “Money is the wise man’s religion.” ~ Euripides
- “Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.” ~ Euripides
- “Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.” ~ Euripides
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“When good men die their goodness does not perish.” ~ Euripides
- “The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.” ~ Euripides
- “Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.” ~ Euripides
- “Man’s best possession is a sympathetic wife.” ~ Euripides
- “No one who lives in error is free.” ~ Euripides
- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” ~ Euripides
- “But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.” ~ Euripides
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“Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.” ~ Euripides
- “Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.” ~ Euripides
- “To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.” ~ Euripides
- “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.” ~ Euripides
- “Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?” ~ Euripides
- “Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise” ~ Euripides
- “The wisest men follow their own direction.” ~ Euripides
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“Enough is abundance to the wise.” ~ Euripides
- “Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.” ~ Euripides
- “Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.” ~ Euripides
- “Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” ~ Euripides
- “The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.” ~ Euripides
- “Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves.” ~ Euripides
- “Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.” ~ Euripides
- “courage is the gift of character” ~ Euripides
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“Action achieves more than words.” ~ Euripides
- “God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.” ~ Euripides
- “The greatest pleasure of life is love.” ~ Euripides
- “When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.” ~ Euripides
- “Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.” ~ Euripides
- “A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.” ~ Euripides
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“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.” ~ Euripides
- “Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.” ~ Euripides
- “Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.” ~ Euripides
- “Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.” ~ Euripides
- “In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?” ~ Euripides
- “Leave no stone unturned.” ~ Euripides
- “The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.” ~ Euripides
- “Time will unveil all things to posterity.” ~ Euripides
- “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” ~ Euripides
