Euripides

Quotes by Euripides

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5th-century BC Athenian playwright

5th-century BC Athenian playwright

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“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
— Euripides, Medea
betrayal love passion sincerity

“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”
— Euripides, Medea
betrayal love passion sincerity

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possess...”
— Euripides, Suppliant Women
freedom joy slavery

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.”
— Euripides, Hippolytus
inspirational science

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
— Euripides
bereavement dream greek grief

“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
— Euripides, Medea
anger grieve life loss

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”
— Euripides
grief

“The myth is not my own”
— I have it from my mother. Euripides
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“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.”
— Euripides
bad gold good medea

“To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.”
— Euripides, Medea
girl-power guilt medea morality

“Your very silence shows you agree.”
— Euripides
silence

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”
— Euripides
forever love lovers

“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
— Euripides
disagreements dissent due-process fairness

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
— Euripides, The Bacchae
foolishness rationality reason sense

“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, trus...”
— Euripides
common-sense humor philosophical

“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.”
— Euripides, Medea
oath religious

“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 abo...”
— Euripides
hecate revenge witchcraft

“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?”
— Euripides, The Trojan Women
greek hatred modern

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
— Euripides
wise

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
— Euripides
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