Euripides Quotes

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

For it is the part of a wise man to practice restrained good temper.

Had I succeeded, I’d be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?

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.

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck.

Whom taking [27] make thou the expedition, but I think thou wilt know [that it is] through the folly of their hearts, for the divinity is not ignorant, but is capable of discerning oaths ill plighted and perforce. But I will not slay my children, so that thy state will in justice be well, revenge upon the worst of wives, but nights and days will waste me away in tears, having wrought lawless, unjust deeds against the children whom I begat. These words are briefly spoken to thee, both plain and easy, but if thou art unwilling to be wise, I will arrange my own affairs well.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise.

But if Diana hath wished to receive my body, shall I, being mortal, become an opponent to the Goddess! But it can not be. I give my body for Greece. Sacrifice it, and sack Troy. For this for a long time will be my memorial, and this my children, my wedding, and my glory. But it is meet that Greeks should rule over barbarians, O mother, but not barbarians over Greeks, for the one is slavish, but the others are free.

Old ties give place to new ones.

Los mortales deberían contraer entre sí sentimientos amorosos moderados, sin llegar hasta los tuétanos del alma, y los afectos del corazón deberían ser fáciles de desatar para rechazarlos o apartarlos