683 Quotes by Euripides

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.

Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.

She sings a dark destructive song.

Piangi con me, supplica il padre di non uccidere tua sorella: anche i bambini si rendono conto delle sciagure.

Character is “a stamp of good repute on a person.”

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I’ve noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

You women are all the same, if bed’s all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there’s any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell’s let loose.

To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo’s son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two – anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.