Quotes from Euripides

It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.

The final end of death comes fast. No need to pray for that.

Old ties give place to new ones.

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

I am a curse upon your house as well.

No cowardice, and no remembering your children, how they were your dears, or how you gave them birth. Instead for this one fleeting day forget that they are yours, and afterward take time to grieve. Although it's you who's killing them they were your lovely babes. And I'm a woman made of sorrow.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.

My legs are trembling, but I won't fall

On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed!

Ojalá cobraran voz mis brazos, y mis manos, y mi pelo, y mis pies, por el arte de Dédalo o de algún dios, para agarrarse todos de tus rodillas, conjurándote con llanto y con palabras de todas las clases.

Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?

And 'tis a rare prize for a man to obtain such a wife, but there is no lack of getting a bad spouse.

For of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Theseus- O mankind so deluded! so pointlessly deluded! Why investigate, study, devise ten thousand technologies yet you do not know this one thing and cannot grasp it: how to teach a mindless man to think.

There's a lot of wine involved and creeping off into corners with men. Meanwhile they call themselves a prayer group! Obviously it's just sex. I've put most of them in jail.

the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche's interior design.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.

Bloodthirsty bitches

Scowlers—I tell thee truth, no more nor less— Life is not life, but just unhappiness