Quotes from Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
- Euripides
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
- Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
- Euripides
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
- Euripides
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
- Euripides
Wine enlivens the human soul.
- Euripides
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
- Euripides
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.
- Euripides
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
- Euripides
No one who lives in error is free.
- Euripides