Quotes from Euripides

What heavenly power lends an ear To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

And, they tell us, we at home Live free from danger, they go out to battle: fools! I'd rather stand three times in the front line than bear One child.

Anger, The spring of all life's horror. - Medea

And I'm a woman made of sorrow.

black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom. - Tiresias to Pentheus

Nurse: Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends. Tutor: And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.

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

But my pain's a fair price, to take away your smile.

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?

Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.

Wine is an escape from grief, a slip into sleep, a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day. What better cure for being human?

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.

O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart?

One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer

They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!

What man's not guilty? It's taken you a long time to learn That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

To have learnt to live on the common level Is better. No grand life for me, Just peace and quiet as I grow old. The middle way, neither great nor mean, Is best by far, in name and practice. To be rich and powerful brings no blessing; Only more utterly Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.

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