Euripides Quotes

CRE. Now indeed cease from your grief, for it is time to think of the sepulture. But hear these words, O Œdipus; Eteocles, thy son, hath given to me the dominion of this land, giving them as a marriage portion to Hæmon, and with them the bed of thy daughter Antigone. I therefore will not suffer thee any longer to dwell in this land. For clearly did Tiresias say, that never, whilst thou dost inhabit this land, will the state be prosperous. But depart; and this I say not from insolence, nor being thine enemy, but on account of thy evil genius, fearing lest the country suffer any harm.

Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

And men in their millions float and flow
And seethe with a million hopes as leaven;
And they win their Will, or they miss their Will,
And the hopes are dead or are pined for still;
But whoe'er can know,
As the long days go,
That To Live is happy, hath found his Heaven!

لا يليق بك إخفاء النصيحة المفيدة عن أحبابك.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards.

Brother, I would thy wit were like thy spear!
But Nature wills not one man should be wise
In all things; each must seek his separate prize.
And thine is battle pure. There comes this word

but Love, the tyrant of men, porter of the dearest chambers of Venus, we worship not, the destroyer and visitant of men in all shapes of calamity, when he comes.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

An homecoming that striveth ever more
And cometh to no home.

Note. — The names of Copreus and Macaria were wanting in the MSS., but have been supplied from the mythologists. See Elmsley on vss. 49 and 474.

Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?

Hector. To think thus pleasures thee? Well, have it thus.

Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.

A fool will think you are an idiot if you talk sense to him.

But I know their disposition and nature; they will rather die; for among virtuous men, disgrace is considered before life.