Euripides Quotes

ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head

So goes the story: but to me
it's hardly plausible
that the sun, with its golden smile,
should turn from its fiery home
to cause mortal misfortune
for mortal rights and wrongs.
But fairy tales that scare us humans
are useful for religion.

Hector. My word is simple. Arm and face the foe.

To generous souls every task is noble.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house.

There liveth not in my life any more
The hope that others have. Nor will I tell
The lie to mine own heart, that aught is well
Or shall be well…. Yet, O, to dream were sweet!

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

تأتي الشدائد اختباراً حقيقياً لمعدن الأصدقاء، وهو اختبار لا تكذب نتائجه قط.

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

Muse. I say to thee: Curse Odysseus,
And cursèd be Diomede!
For they made me childless, and forlorn for ever, of
the flower of sons.
Yea, curse Helen, who left the houses of Hellas.
She knew her lover, she feared not the ships and sea.
She called thee, called thee, to die for the sake of Paris,
Belovèd, and a thousand cities
She made empty of good men.

CHOR. It is not right to speak well, where the deeds are not glorious; for this is not honorable, but galling to justice.

Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.

But I wish to give you a wise piece of advice. When a friend is enraged with a man his friend, having met him face to face, let him fix his eyes on his friend's eyes, this only ought he to consider, the end for which he is come, but to have no recollection of former grievances.

No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.