Euripides Quotes

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

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

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.

ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.

ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.

ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.

ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?

ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.

Authority is never without hate.

O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flowing from the wounds of your trees
in tears of sap,
screaming with the rage
of your hunted beasts.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Prosperity is full of friends.