Quotes from Euripides

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in argument, merits the severest punishment. For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Is love so small a pain for a woman?

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.

When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?

for if we, mortals who die, are to have cares even there, I know not where one can turn, for to die is considered the greatest remedy for evils.

To live dishonorably is better than to die gloriously.

And so, by the arts of Ulysses, [5] they drew me from my mother under pretense of being wedded to Achilles.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Do not revive a grief I had forgotten.

Un esclavo es aquel que no puede expresar su pensamiento.

And him that is our enemy shall the father kill with imprecations, which Neptune, king of the ocean, granted as a privilege to Theseus, that he should make no prayer thrice to the God in vain.

Rhesus. Thy way is mine, friend. Straight I run my race In word and deed, and bear no double tongue.

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20] MEN. But an unstable mind is an unjust thing to possess, and

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Upon my knees i say 'You used me' And I feel dirty from your touch

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

We cannot force Fortune against her will.

But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

Truth is simple by nature in the telling, and justice needs no cunning gloss of sophistries. It has a right measure of its own; but the argument that is unjust is sick in nature, and so needs the medicine of clever words.

but it is impossible to avoid what is fated; no one can repel it by wisdom, but he who is hasty without purpose will always have trouble;