Quotes About Euripides

In Plato and in many Greek tragedies we learn that the Athenians did not seem to believe in rewards and punishments after death. 'In fact, they do not seem to have expected very much at all. "After death every man is earth and shadow: nothing goes to nothing".' (This is a character in one of Euripides' plays.) In Plato's Phaedo, Simmias betrays his worry that at his death his soul will be scattered 'and this is their end'.52

Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.

The myth is not my own; I have it from my mother. Euripides

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

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.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles' fellow playwright, Euripides. It is a curious contrast to the martial spirit of the Aeneid. To Virgil as to all Roman poets, war was the noblest and most glorious of human activities. Four hundred years before Virgil a Greek poet looked at it differently. What was the end of that far-famed war? Euripides seems to ask. Just this, a ruined town, a dead baby, a few wretched women.

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues

Just when we are safest, there's a sunset touch,A fancy from a flower bell, someone's death,A chorus ending from Euripides.

So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.

death is the only water to wash away this dirt

He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

She sings a dark destructive song.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

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

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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.

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

Oh, in all things but this, I know how full of fears a woman is, And faint at need, and shrinking from the light Of battle: but once spoil her of her right In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well, No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell.

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.