Euripides

Explore 12 quotes by Euripides

Mere cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Bacchae

Buy Bacchae at Amazon Buy Bacchae at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Wisdom Cleverness

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Euripides

Source

Bacchae

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

405 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. The Bacchae. 405 BC, l. 395.

Current Citation

Euripides. "The Baccae." Euripedes V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus, translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013, l. 395.

My tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn.

Euripides

Buy Hippolytus at Amazon Buy Hippolytus at Amazon
Read Hippolytus at the MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

Promises

Speaker

Hippolytus

Author

Euripides

Source

Hippolytus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

428 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Leave no stone unturned.

Euripides

Children of Hercules

Read Heracleidae at MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

Taking care Thoroughness

Speaker

Eurystheus

Author

Euripides

Source

Children of Hercules

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Greek

Time

430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Herakles' Children [Children of Heracles]. c. 430 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "The Children of Hercules." Euripides I: Alcestis; Medea; The Children of Heracles; Hippolytus, edited and translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, and Richmond Lattimore. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.

Euripides

Hippolytus

Buy Hippolytus at Amazon Buy Hippolytus at Amazon
Read Hippolytus at the MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

Conscience Inner peace

Speaker

Phaedra

Author

Euripides

Source

Hippolytus

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

428 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Love distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child.

Euripides

Hippolytus

Buy Hippolytus at Amazon Buy Hippolytus at Amazon
Read Hippolytus at the MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

Power of love Love

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Euripides

Source

Hippolytus

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

428 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

Euripides

Orestes

More information about this quote

Topic

Sleep

Speaker

Orestes

Author

Euripides

Source

Orestes

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

408 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ὀρέστης [Orestes]. 408 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Orestes." Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain.

Euripides

Alcestis

Buy Alcestis at Amazon Buy Alcestis at Amazon
Read this quote at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Relationship challenges Marriage

Speaker

Chorus Leader

Author

Euripides

Source

Alcestis

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

438 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἄλκηστις [Alcestis]. 438 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Alcestis." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Hercules, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune.

Euripides

Alcestis

Buy Alcestis at Amazon Buy Alcestis at Amazon
Read this quote at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Letting go Contentment Happiness Fate

Speaker

Heracles

Author

Euripides

Source

Alcestis

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

438 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἄλκηστις [Alcestis]. 438 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Alcestis." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Hercules, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Euripides

Phoenix

More information about this quote

Topic

Influences Man as social animal

Author

Euripides

Source

Phoenix

Language

Greek

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Euripides. Phoenix. 5th century BC, fragment 809.

The god
Visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides

Phrixus

More information about this quote

Topic

Collective guilt

Author

Euripides

Source

Phrixus

Language

Greek

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Euripides. Phrixus. 5th century BC, fragment 970.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,
but we can't bring it to achievement.

Euripides

Hippolytus

Buy Hippolytus at Amazon Buy Hippolytus at Amazon
Read Hippolytus at the MIT's classics department website

More information about this quote

Topic

The good Doing the right thing

Speaker

Phaedra

Author

Euripides

Source

Hippolytus

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

428 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

Euripides

Phrixus

More information about this quote

Topic

Life and death

Author

Euripides

Source

Phrixus

Language

Greek

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Euripides. Phrixus. 5th century BC, fragment 830.