“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Hurry, come hold me, though I am dead. Shed tears on my body as on my grave.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth… — Euripides Copy Share Image
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out… — Euripides Copy Share Image
