683 Quotes by Euripides

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.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

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.

It is wise to withhold one’s heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.

I wish you joy. To spend life’s fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.

My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.

By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won’t bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.