Euripides
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.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Man's best possession is a loving wife.
Gods, how we love to slander, and how quickly we believe it!
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.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Experience, travel -- these are an education in themselves.
When a man is in a foreign country, he should be silent and listen.
Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
The best prophet of the future is the past.
No one can escape his fate.
The man who has a wife is a man who has a master.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, there is none so vile as man.
The noblest lives are those which are lived for others.
To err is human; to persist in error, devilish.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us.
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are many words in it, and the range of its speech is endless.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Silence is the answer to a wise man.