Quotes from Euripides

Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it's not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You're bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This "new invented daimon" you laugh at — take my word for it — he's not one to laugh at. He's going to be big.

A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.

that shock of fear that runs right through an army before battle, that shock is Dionysos.

Tú, Troya, patria mía, no serás ya contada entre las ciudades jamás conquistadas.

K?sa ve öz konuÅŸarak kendini güzel tan?tt?n, ama ben kad?nlarla konuÅŸmaya utan?r?m.

Est fou, bien sûr, qui se refuse aux délices du vin, quand on peut dresser haut celui que je tiens là, palper un sein, caresser des deux mains une prairie offerte ! L'or danse et l'on oublie ses maux !

DIONYSUS: You did not know me when you should have.

I got thee to succeed me in my hall, I have fed thee, clad thee. But I have no call To die for thee. Not in our family, Not in all Greece, doth law bid fathers die To save their sons. Thy road of life is thine None other's, to rejoice at or repine. All that was owed to thee by us is paid. My throne is thine. My broad lands shall be made Thine, as I had them from my father…. Say, How have I wronged thee? What have I kept away? Not died for thee?… I ask not thee to die.

In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love

Wisdom lies in clarity.

ALCESTIS Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

See, how strong love overwhelms us. See, how it wounds and destroys and yet when Aphrodite wants to soothe, nothing cures as love cures. So, my love, shoot me gently, barely break my skin with your terrible arrows.

Streams of the sacred rivers flow uphill; Tradition, order, all things are reversed: Deceit is men's device now, Men's oaths are gods' dishonour. Legend will now reverse our reputation; A time comes when the female sex is honoured; That old discordant slander Shall no more hold us subject.

That mortal is a fool who destroys a city, its temples, its tombs, and the precincts of the dead, making them a waste. He will be destroyed himself.

Of people my own age, friends and relatives, you are my favorite. You're all those things to me

Baik sekali menjadi kaya, baik sekali menjadi kuat, tetapi lebih baik lagi menjadi orang yang dicintai banyak kawan.

MEDEA: Tell me, How does it feel with my teeth in your heart?

How strange, that bad soil, if the gods send rain and sun, Bears a rich crop, while good soil, starved of what it needs, Is barren; but man's nature is ingrained - the bad Is never anything but bad, and the good man Is good: misfortune cannot warp his character, His goodness will endure.

Misfortunes in the end Grow tired of plaguing; storms in time blow themselves out. So luck will change from man to man; and everything Yields place to something else. Despair is cowardly; The brave man holds fast to confidence and hope.

Blood-guilty wretch

Even catastrophes grow weary, No wind can keep blasting all the time. And great happiness in the end falters. Yes, all is change.