Euripides Quotes

Every thing appears terrible even to the bold, when his foot shall pass across a hostile country.

The men of old times had little sense;/If you called them fools you wouldn't be far wrong./They invented songs, and all the sweetness of music,/To perform at feasts, banquets, and celebrations;/But no one thought of using/Songs and stringed instruments/To banish the bitterness and pain of life.

Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.

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

Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.

How far you are from understanding
what my intentions are. May fruitful earth
refuse to take my blood and the bright sky
my spirit, if I ever betray you,
if I let myself go free and leave you.
I did the murder, too. I don't deny it.

On the numberless references to this impious sophism, see the learned notes of Valckenaer and Monk. Compare more particularly Aristoph. Ran. 102, 1471. Thesmoph. 275. Arist. Rhet. iii. 15. B.

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women
Are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum,
We have bought a husband, we must then accept him as
Possessor of our body. This is to aggravate
Wrong with worse wrong. Then the great question: will the man
We get be bad or good? For women, divorce is not
Respectable; to repel the man, not possible.

يقولون إن عيون المضيفين تنظر إلى المنفيين طالبي العون في رفق لمدة يوم واحد فقط.

but it is impossible to avoid what is fated; no one can repel it by wisdom, but he who is hasty without purpose will always have trouble;

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

The good and wise lead quite lives

Verily we must believe the Gods are senseless, if we feel well disposed to murderers.

What's more, we are born women. It mat be we're unqualified for deeds of virtue: yet as the architects of every kind of mischief, we are supremely skilled.

Apollo, Apollo — but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.