Euripides Quotes

"Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way"."

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce — the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

And I'm a woman made of sorrow.

There be many shapes of mystery; And many things God brings to be, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought. So hath it fallen here.

μεταβάλλει δυσδαιμονία
[It is change that causes pain]

Terrible things breed in broken hearts. And I see in my mistress' eyes a fury that wont be calmed… It can’t be long before her sorrow turns, as sorrow always does, into rage.

If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom.

- Tiresias to Pentheus

ἐλθέ: καὶ σκιὰ φάνηθί μοι:
ἅλις γὰρ ἐλθὼν κἂν ὄναρ γένοιο σύ:
Vrati se! Makar kao sen,
makar kao san!

Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

Oh, say, how call ye this,
To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kiss
Betrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:
'Tis but of all man's inward sicknesses
The vilest, that he knoweth not of shame
Nor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . .
To me it shall bring comfort, once to clear
My heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.

يجب الحذر والحيطة من عدو أحمق وغد، أما إذا كان عدوك رجلاً شريفاً من بيت كريم فاخضع له، إذ أن خضوعك قد يلين قلبه.

الآباء النبلاء تعاني سمعتهم الطيبة من أي فعل مشين قد يرتكبه الأبناء.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.