Euripides Quotes

O child. You are mine, though you do evil.

Truth is simple by nature in the telling, and justice needs no cunning gloss of sophistries. It has a right measure of its own; but the argument that is unjust is sick in nature, and so needs the medicine of clever words.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

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

MEN. For thou thinkest inconsistently, now one thing, before another, another thing presently. AG. Well hast thou talked evil. Hateful is a too clever tongue. [20]

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

The final end of death comes fast.
No need to pray for that.

He loves power. A terrible love.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

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?

It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. All people alike fight fiercely for their children.

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

How strange, that bad soil, if the gods send rain and sun,
Bears a rich crop, while good soil, starved of what it needs,
Is barren; but man's nature is ingrained - the bad
Is never anything but bad, and the good man
Is good: misfortune cannot warp his character,
His goodness will endure.

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