Bacchae Euripides Quotes

Wine enlivens the human soul. ~ Euripides

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps. ~ Euripides

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ~ Euripides

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. ~ Euripides

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. ~ Euripides

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ~ Euripides

No one who lives in error is free. ~ Euripides

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. ~ Euripides

Do not consider painful what is good for you. ~ Euripides

Time cancels young pain. ~ Euripides

Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all. ~ Euripides

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. ~ Euripides

What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver? ~ Euripides

Bear calamities with meekness. ~ Euripides

He who has perceived the material out of which the Promethean tragic writers prior to Euripides formed their heroes, and how remote from their purpose it was to bring the faithful mask of reality onto the stage, will also be aware of the utterly opposite tendency of Euripides. Through him the everyday man forced his way from the spectators' seats onto the stage; the mirror in which formerly only grand and bold traits were represented now showed the painful fidelity that conscientiously reproduces even the botched outlines of nature. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. ~ Euripides

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness! ~ Euripides

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. ~ Euripides

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage? ~ Euripides

Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything. ~ Euripides

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing. ~ Euripides

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long. ~ Euripides

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. ~ Euripides

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never. ~ Euripides

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair. ~ Euripides

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. ~ Euripides

Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. ~ Euripides

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly. ~ Euripides

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death. ~ Euripides

Euripides, however, has drawn Fate down from the region of the infinite; and with him inevitable necessity not unfrequently degenerates into the caprice of chance. Accordingly, he can no longer apply it to its proper purpose, namely, by contrast with it, to heighten the moral liberty of man. How few of his pieces turn upon a steadfast resistance to the decrees of fate, or an equally heroic submission to them! His characters generally suffer because they must, and not because they will. ~ August Wilhelm Schlegel

The sea, as Euripides says in one of his plays about Iphigenia, washes away the stains and wounds of the world. ~ Oscar Wilde

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. ~ Euripides

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends. ~ Euripides