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Quotations By Euripides


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

Adversity
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Adversity
In misfortune, what friend remains a friend?

Age
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Change
All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Courage
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Friendship
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. -- Euripides

Happiness
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Happiness
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Love
He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Love
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Marriage
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Necessity
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Wisdom
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.