Euripides Quotes

tis a majestic thing, The darkness.

And this is a grief beyond the reality, if a man incurs blame for sins that are not his.

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

JOC. Some God miserably destroys the race of Œdipus; for thus began it, when I brought forth children in that unhallowed manner, and thy father married me in evil hour, and thou didst spring forth. But why relate these things? What is sent by the Gods we must bear. But how I may ask the questions I wish, I know not, for I fear lest I wound at all thy feelings; but I have a great desire. POL. But inquire freely, leave nothing out. For what you wish, my mother, this is dear to me. JOC. I ask thee therefore, first, for the information that I wish to obtain. What is the being deprived of one's country, is it a great ill? POL. The greatest: and greater is it in deed than in word. JOC. What is the reason of that? What is that so harsh to exiles? POL. One thing, and that the greatest, not to have the liberty of speaking. JOC. This that you have mentioned belongs to a slave, not to give utterance to what one thinks. POL. It is necessary to bear with the follies of those in power. JOC. And this is painful, to be unwise with the unwise. POL. But for interest we must bend to slavery contrary to our nature

I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.

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

Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.

To the dear lone lands untroubled of men,
Where no voice sounds, and amid the shadowy green
The little things of the woodland live unseen.

Of people my own age, friends and relatives, you are my favorite.
You're all those things to me

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.

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Η αἰδώς είναι της σοφιας

HERACLES.
I understand no more.
Thy words are riddles.