Euripides

Tragic Playwright Ancient Greece 480 – 406

Athenian tragedian who questioned traditional beliefs through dramatic innovation.

381 quotes

"Honor is my life; 'tis to that all else I owe."
"There is no justice in a world that has thrown me into this darkness."
Justice
"I will not kill you; I shall merely destroy everything you love."
Power
"One must fall in love. It's the best way to forget oneself."
Love
"The richest man in the world is one with a grateful heart."
Gratitude
"I have heard it said that who walks with the wise becomes wise."
Wisdom
"Where I cannot engage, I do not command."
Leadership
"Sleep is the greatest discovery of my life."
Humor
"None of us is as powerful as all of us."
"The laws are not generally made for the destruction of a tyrant only, but all."
Politics
"Men are slaves when it is a shame to them to be free."
Freedom
"I would not trust a man who could speak only truth."
"The impossible can be believed the day it is proved."
Science
"I am not of the opinion that every man is wise that hath a great deal to say."
Wisdom
"Love to faults is always blind."
Love
"Some flee from glory, but glory doth not flee from them."
Success
"To a heart, when overcome by grief, what is the taste of food?"
"Oh, what fine thought we often cache when doing battle with the enemy!"
War
"The greatest friends are those we make standing back to back against the world."
Friendship
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
Friendship
"The tongue alone can never be called unlucky, for it is the tongue that makes man man."
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
Freedom
"I love the man that can smile in trouble."
Courage
"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter is the true wisdom."
"In a just cause the weak overcome the strong."
Justice
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries."
Nature
"The brave man intemperance and the coward rages; the slave to his passion."
Strength
"There are times when even life itself is victory enough."
Perseverance
"Our sorrows shine the brighter when our joys have been."
"No one can live happily who looks only to himself."
Life