Euripides

Literature Ancient Greek -480 – -406 78 quotes

The last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, known for his innovative use of myth.

Quotes by Euripides

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Fragment 1082

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Unknown

Man's best possession is a loving wife.

Andromache

Gods, how we love to slander, and how quickly we believe it!

Hippolytus

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, you live a wise and a happy life.

Medea

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Telephus

Experience, travel -- these are an education in themselves.

Fragment 904

When a man is in a foreign country, he should be silent and listen.

Fragment 905

Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.

Fragment

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Fragment 906

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Fragment 907

No one can escape his fate.

Medea

The man who has a wife is a man who has a master.

Fragment 908

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, there is none so vile as man.

Medea

The noblest lives are those which are lived for others.

Fragment 909

To err is human; to persist in error, devilish.

Medea

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us.

Hippolytus

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are many words in it, and the range of its speech is endless.

Medea

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Fragment 910

Silence is the answer to a wise man.

Fragment 911