Euripides Quotes

for if this shall be, and they ratify your words, I no longer know this Athens as free.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

Any pleasure I took in life I now renounce; it’s death I want.

On behalf of all those dead
who learned their hatred of women long ago,
for those who hate them now, for those unborn
who shall live to hate them yet, I now declare
my firm conviction: neither earth nor ocean
produces a creature as savage and monstrous
as woman.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Helen: What happened in my heart, to make me leave my home
And my own land, to follow where a stranger led?
Rail at the goddess; be more resolute than Zeus,
Who holds power over all other divinities
But is himself the slave of love. Show Aphrodite
Your indignation; me, pardon and sympathy. Hecabe: No; Paris was an extremely handsome man – one look,
And your appetite became your Aphrodite. Why,
Men's lawless lusts are all called love – it's a confusion
Easily made.

No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora.

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

يقولون إن عيون المضيفين تنظر إلى المنفيين طالبي العون في رفق لمدة يوم واحد فقط.

What epitaph, I wonder, would a poet write for him?

De quien es pobre, nadie quiere ser amigo.

Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill;
Tradition, order, all things are reversed:
Deceit is men's device now,
Men's oaths are gods' dishonour.
Legend will now reverse our reputation;
A time comes when the female sex is honoured;
That old discordant slander
Shall no more hold us subject.