Euripides Quotes

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

It's human; we all put self interest first.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

[Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.

He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is laughter, and music in flutes.
He is repose from all cares — he is sleep!
When his blood bursts from the grape
and flows across tables laid in his honor
to fuse with our blood,
he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows
of ivy-cool sleep.

death is the only water to wash away this dirt

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess.
She is the Earth — or any name you wish to call her — and she sustains humanity with solid food.
Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin,
bringing the counterpart to bread: wine
and the blessings of life's flowing juices.
His blood, the blood of the grape,
lightens the burden of our mortal misery.
Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out
to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.