Quotes from Euripides

courage is the gift of character

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

O Dionysus, Son of God, do you see our sufferings? Do you see your faithful in helpless agony before the oppressor? O Lord, come down from Olympus, shake your golden thyrsus and stifle the murderer's insolent fury.

Receive the god into your kingdom pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great? To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait; To hold a hand uplifted over Hate; And shall not Loveliness be loved for ever?

To generous souls every task is noble.

He loves power. A terrible love.

Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.

We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.

AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.